New Jersey colleges and universities paid professors $121,986 on average in 2013, according to new data released by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Princeton topped New Jersey schools with an average pay of $185,625 for professors, the highest ranking faculty members. Those wages ranked 11th highest in the country.
The average salary figures were compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education for a new database of 4,700 institutions with 10 years of faculty and staff salary data broken down by gender and academic rank. The data comes from information schools submitted to the U.S. Department of Education.
The New Jersey Institute of Technology ($150,759) and Rutgers-Newark campus ($148,662) both ranked among the top 10 nationally in average pay for professors at four-year public universities.
Rutgers-New Brunswick ($138,195) ranked 19th among those schools, one spot ahead of Penn State University ($137,898). Figures for Rutgers University’s professors predate the school’s merger with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Full professors are a minority of the teaching staff at most schools, and the data base also includes average wages for associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, lecturers and unranked faculty.
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