Dive Brief:

• The Non-Exempts in Higher Education Salary Survey of hourly workers at colleges and universities has electrician supervisor and firefighter as the highest paid positions, with median base salaries of $54,828 and $54,733.
• The lowest paid positions in the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources survey were custodian/housekeeper at $24,760 and food server at $24,213.
• The survey covered 177,165 non-exempt staff in 118 types of jobs — paid hourly and eligible for overtime — at 807 public and private colleges and universities in the U.S.

Dive Insight:

Because this is CUPA-HR’s first Non-Exempt Staff in Higher Education Salary Survey, it has no data on annual changes in salaries. The association now covers all types of higher ed staff with its salary surveys. Among office and clerical workers, the median salaries range from $28,233 for receptionist to $43,714 for executive assistants. For technical and paraprofessional workers, the lowest median was for animal care paraprofessionals — $31,600. The highest was for paralegals, at $49,504. In the skilled craft category, the range was from sign painter ($34,199) to the previously mentioned electrician supervisor. Service and maintenance workers ranged from food server to firefighter.