Salaries of History Professors

PhDinHistory offers a detailed analysis of faculty salaries in history based on the 2003 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. He summarizes his findings as follows:

At the full, associate, and assistant professor of history levels, the difference in average base salary for women and men is now no more than 2 percent.
Among assistant professors of history, women now earn, on average, nearly $700 more than men.
Across the academy, full-time male history faculty receive, on average, around $8,500 more than full-time female history faculty.
Part-time female history faculty are paid, on average, about 8 percent more than part-time male history faculty.
The gender gap in salaries for history faculty has almost vanished at two-year schools.
There is a direct proportional relationship between the selectivity of a school and the inequities in its average base salaries for male and female history faculty.
Male history faculty at private doctoral institutions are paid, on average, 54 percent more than female history faculty.
Among tenured history faculty at all doctoral institutions, women earn only 83 percent of what men earn.

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