April 17, 2009
Professors' Pay Raises Beat Inflation; So Much for the Good News
Faculty pay has been battered by the deepening national recession, but you can't tell that from the American Association of University Professors' new annual report on the economic status of the profession. The average salary of a full-time faculty member rose 3.4 percent in 2008-9, it says, a rate well above inflation.
That would be good news, but the association collected the salary information in the fall of 2008, before layoffs, pay cuts, and furloughs began to crimp faculty
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