Annual mean and median salary report presented to Budget committee

By SUSAN JONES

The annual report on mean and median salaries for Pitt faculty and staff was reported to the Senate Budget committee on March 19.

The salaries, which are prepared by the Office of Institutional Research, are from fall 2019, said Amanda Brodish, director of Data Analytics and Pathways in the provost’s office who presented the numbers to the committee. “So this is pre-COVID. This is when we taught in classrooms and went out to dinner and life was good.”

The report groups salaries by responsibility centers and job type. For faculty, the numbers reflect nine-month equivalent salaries. For the School of Medicine, faculty salaries reflect only the amount they get from Pitt, so they are not included in the list below but are in the full report. Staff are listed with 12-month salaries.

Research and postdoc associates are excluded from this particular report, Brodish said. And some categories are left blank if there are three or fewer people in that area, so as not to reveal individual salaries.

There are a couple other areas of note. Deans are included in Executive, Administrative and Managerial staff under the Office of the Provost. Employees are associated with the responsibility center that processes their employee record. For instance, Mellon and distinguished professors within the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences show up in the Dietrich School dean's office responsibility center, rather than with their department.

Typically, a report about analyzing salary increases for full-time continuing faculty also is released in the spring, but that report was not done this year because there was a freeze on pay hikes because of the pandemic.

STAFF

Highest mean salary, by department

Chancellor’s office: 31 employees, $185,728

Senior Vice Chancellor Business and Operations: 10 employees, $194,738

Athletics: 205 employees, $136,924

Highest median salary, by department

Senior Vice Chancellor Business and Operations: 10 employees, $199,362

Office of University Counsel: 23 employees, $120,000

Chancellor’s office: 31 employees, $104,550

Lowest mean salary, by department

University Library System: 101 employees, $38,205

Pitt–Titusville: 28 employees, $39,361

Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, Humanities: 52 employees, $40,065

Lowest median salary, by department

University Library System: 101 employees, $32,500

Dietrich School, Humanities: 52 employees, $35,351

Dietrich School, Natural Sciences: 193 employees, $36,388

FACULTY

Highest mean salary, by department

Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, dean’s office: 39 employees, $189,011

Katz Graduate School of Business: 91 employees, $179,393

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs: 26 employees, $127,518

Highest median salary, by department

Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, dean’s office: 39 employees, $197,524

Katz Graduate School of Business: 91 employees, $174,650

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs: 26 employees, $119,441

Lowest mean salary, by department

Education–University Service Programs: 4 employees, $52,711

University Library System: 66 employees, $60,106

Pitt–Titusville: 21 employees, $61,891

Lowest median salary, by department

University Library System: 66 employees, $48,355

Education–University Service Programs: 4 employees, $52,490

Pitt–Titusville: 21 employees, $59,592

Susan Jones is editor of the University Times. Reach her at suejones@pitt.edu or 724-244-4042.

 

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