Salaries General Data and Report Sources on the Professoriate

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