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Experts said the pandemic’s long-term impact on faculty salaries, like the speed of economic recovery and university reopening timelines, remains unknown.
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By Yankun Zhao
May 10, 2021 12:23 AM
Full-time, assistant and associate professors earned a lower average salary this academic year compared to the last, part of a nationwide fallback in faculty compensation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The American Association of University Professors’ annual survey on faculty compensation, which reports on more than 900 U.S. universities, including GW, found that real wages for full-time faculty decreased for the first time since the Great Recession this past academic year. Officials’ data showed slight decreases in average salaries for all three levels of professorship with full professors decreasing by an average of $1,023, associate professors by $381 and assistant professors by $478 this year.