By SUSAN JONES
The Senate Budget Policies committee received the faculty and staff Mean & Median Salary Reports (available through link with a Pitt sign on) in May.
The report groups salaries by responsibility centers and job type, from data gathered in October 2022. For faculty, the numbers reflect nine-month equivalent salaries. For the School of Medicine, faculty salaries reflect only the amount they get from Pitt. Staff are listed with 12-month salaries.
Some categories are left blank if there are three or fewer people in that area, so as not to reveal individual salaries. 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.
Below are some highlights from the report:
STAFF
Highest mean salary
Senior Vice Chancellor Business and Operations: 17 employees, $183,686
Athletics: 219 employees, $157,924
Office of University Counsel: 26 employees, $139,059
Highest median salary
Senior Vice Chancellor Business and Operations: 17 mployees, $138,600
Office of University Counsel: 26 employees, $133,303
Pitt IT: 295 employees, $81,843
Lowest mean salary
Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, social sciences: 15 employees, $44,548
University Library System: 84 employees, $44,630
Pitt–Greensburg: 88 employees, $45,614
Lowest median salary
University Library System: 84 employees, $36,125
Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, natural sciences: 191 employees, $41,000
Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, social sciences: 15 employees, $38,006
FACULTY
Highest mean salary
Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, dean’s office: 36 employees, $197,818
Katz Graduate School of Business: 90 employees, $186,829
Swanson School of Engineering: 198 employees, $123,020
Highest median salary
Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, dean’s office: 36 employees, $195,852
Katz Graduate School of Business: 90 employees, $181,500
School of Computing and Information: 63 employees, $115,551
Lowest mean salary
University Center for International Studies: 6 employees, $46,268
University Library System: 60 employees, $59,798
Senior Vice Chancellor Health Sciences: 20 employees, $68,088
Lowest median salary
University Center for International Studies: 6 employees, $45,000
University Library System: 60 employees, $49,513
School of Medicine: 2,561 employees, $55,592
Post-docs and research associates
Several departments had only one or two people in this category, so their salaries were not included to protect their privacy.
Other than the Learning Research and Development Center — with 34 employees at a mean salary of $79,099 and median of $67,575 — all of the other salaries were grouped closely together between $49,000 and $57,000.
Salaries for continuing faculty
The committee also received an analysis of salary increases for full-time continuing faculty from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2023. This group makes up 83 percent of all faculty in 2023. The Salary Increase Reports also are available online with a Pitt sign-on.
For fiscal year 2023, the salary pool for all eligible employees was set at 3.25 percent with an 1 percent available for merit, market or equity salary increases.
Overall the average individual faculty members’ increase was 5.5 percent. The median was 4.3 percent. The highest average increase was in the Swanson School of Engineering, at 6.9 percent, and the lowest was 4.3 percent at Pitt–Titusville.
The total amount paid to these faculty who remained on staff from FY22 to FY23 increased from $225 million to $237 million.
Susan Jones is editor of the University Times. Reach her at suejones@pitt.edu or 724-244-4042.
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