Dive Brief:

• Median salaries for full-time faculty members at two-year colleges in the 2013-2014 school year rose 2% from the previous year, according to a survey of 213 U.S. colleges.
• For unionized faculty, the increase was 2.1%. For non-union faculty, the increase was 1.9%.
• The median of the average salaries reported by the institutions in the survey was $59,705, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources reported.

Dive Insight:

CUPA-HR reported in a press release that the median is “substantially higher” for union shops than for non-unionized institutions, but to get those figures the reader has to pay for the report. The overall increase is lower than the 2.2% median increase for faculty at four-year schools, but higher than the 1.5% inflation increase, as marked by the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers. The lowest salaries went to faculty in precision production, transportation, and materials moving, and science technologies. The highest-paid faculty were in ethnic, cultural, gender and group studies; architecture; and legal support services. For adjunct faculty, the median of the average numbers of credit hours taught at the institutions in the survey was 5.9, while the median average salary per credit hour was $858.