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Home  › Resources  › Data on the Profession  › Salaries Salaries General Data and Report Sources on the Professoriate From APSA Salary Report for Political Science Departments Update -- 2008 Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology www.cpst.org/ Salaries of Scientists, Engineers and Technicians: A Summary of Salary Surveys, 22nd Edition, October 2007; includes information on Political Science faculty salaries; from the press release about this edition: Gains were seen in starting salary offers across all science and engineering fields in summer 2007, with the most significant increases in political science (up 5.9%), chemical engineering (up 5.4%), civil engineering (up 5.4%) and computer engineering (up 4.8%). National Center for Educational Statistics www.nces.ed.gov Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2006,and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2006-07 http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008172.pdf American Association of University Professors  http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/ Includes The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession and other surveys. The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/stats/ A compendium of annual and late-breaking surveys on the higher education profession, including surveys of salaries and benefits, gender equity, student data, research data, etc. http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/ AAUP Faculty Salary Survey: a searchable database of faculty salaries National Education Association Annual Almanac of Higher Education www.nea.org/he/almanac.html  Faculty Salaries: 2005-2006 www2.nea.org/he/healma2k7/images/a07p7.pdf Ohio Universities Faculty Salaries Survey 2005-2006 http://hr.osu.edu/miar/ohfacsal06.pdf Oklahoma State University Faculty Salary Survey http://www.vpaf.okstate.edu/IRIM/FacultySalary.html News Articles on Faculty Salaries "Faculty Salaries Up 3.8%" Inside Higher Education, March 12, 2007