Total number of Employees at U.S. Colleges by occupation
There are 3,602,258 employees at U.S. Colleges - 1,573,653 faculties (instructional staffs) and 2,028,605 non-instructional staffs. By hired status, 2,591,438 full-time and 1,010,820 pare-time employees are working for U.S. Colleges. By gender, there are 1,597,396 male employees and 2,004,862 female college employees at U.S. Colleges. You may want to check the faculty (instructional staffs) salary by academic rank and non-instructional staffs salary by occupation. Next table shows the total number of faculties and staffs working for U.S. Colleges by occupation.
Average by State
| Occupation | Total | Full-time | Part-time | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | Total | Men | Women | |
| Grand Total | 3,602,258 | 1,597,396 | 2,004,862 | 2,591,438 | 1,152,683 | 1,438,755 | 1,010,820 | 444,713 | 566,107 |
| Postsecondary Teachers | 1,573,653 | 786,405 | 787,248 | 847,474 | 451,124 | 396,350 | 726,179 | 335,281 | 390,898 |
| Librarians, Curators, and Archivists and other teaching and Instructional support | 228,663 | 71,869 | 156,794 | 163,414 | 47,943 | 115,471 | 65,249 | 23,926 | 41,323 |
| Management | 268,038 | 115,708 | 152,330 | 260,805 | 112,799 | 148,006 | 7,233 | 2,909 | 4,324 |
| Business and Financial Operations | 222,108 | 60,255 | 161,853 | 208,501 | 56,612 | 151,889 | 13,607 | 3,643 | 9,964 |
| Computer, Engineering, and Science | 240,006 | 144,668 | 95,338 | 221,029 | 136,115 | 84,914 | 18,977 | 8,553 | 10,424 |
| Community Service, Legal, Arts, and Media | 186,953 | 83,600 | 103,353 | 152,056 | 66,534 | 85,522 | 34,897 | 17,066 | 17,831 |
| Healthcare Practioners and Technical | 111,606 | 32,714 | 78,892 | 93,782 | 28,100 | 65,682 | 17,824 | 4,614 | 13,210 |
| Service | 245,706 | 141,503 | 104,203 | 205,430 | 119,686 | 85,744 | 40,251 | 21,806 | 18,445 |
| Sales and related | 13,254 | 4,597 | 8,657 | 10,778 | 3,884 | 6,894 | 2,476 | 713 | 1,763 |
| Office and Administrative Support | 418,340 | 71,585 | 346,755 | 341,886 | 50,987 | 290,899 | 76,454 | 20,598 | 55,856 |
| Natural Resources, Construction, and Maintenance | 74,822 | 68,801 | 6,021 | 70,764 | 65,888 | 4,876 | 4,058 | 2,913 | 1,145 |
| Production, Transportation, and Material Moving | 19,134 | 15,702 | 3,432 | 15,519 | 13,011 | 2,508 | 3,615 | 2,691 | 924 |
Faculty / Staffs Raking & Stats
Highest Faculty Salary
- Harvard University $182,884
- Stanford University $182,338
- Princeton University $181,669
- Rockefeller University $180,509
- California Institute of Technology $179,530