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Here's what college professors get paid at the 50 best public universities in America

Aug 17, 2018, 22:18 IST

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  • We took a look how much professors at the 50 best public colleges in the US earn for their work.
  • Using rankings from US News and data from the Department of Education, we found the average salary for non-medical instructional staff.
  • No. 1-ranked UCLA has the highest average professor salary at just over $155,000.

College professors at the top public universities in the United States tend to do pretty well for themselves. That is to say, most of them are earning more money than the average K-12 public school teacher.

We took a look at the 50 best public colleges and universities in 2018 as ranked by US News and World Report and gathered data on the average salary for non-medical instructional staff normalized to a standard nine-month contract for the 2016-2017 school year from the Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey results. Many school rankings are tied.

We found that average salaries for professors tended to be higher at schools closer to the top of the rankings, with No. 1-ranked UCLA (tied with UC Berkeley) also having the highest average professor salary at $155,059.

Here are the average salaries for instructional staff at the top 50 public universities and colleges in the US, ranked in ascending order:

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University of Tennessee

US News national rank: 46 (TIE)

Average salary: $96,909

University of South Carolina

US News national rank: 46 (TIE)

Average salary: $95,825

University of Oregon

US News national rank: 46 (TIE)

Average salary: $90,284

University of New Hampshire

US News national rank: 46 (TIE)

Average salary: $103,494

Auburn University

US News national rank: 46 (TIE)

Average salary: $89,219

University of Vermont

US News national rank: 41 (TIE)

Average salary: $89,683

University of Oklahoma

US News national rank: 41 (TIE)

Average salary: $85,747

University at Buffalo-SUNY

US News national rank: 41 (TIE)

Average salary: $92,257

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

US News national rank: 41 (TIE)

Average salary: $75,227

Stony Brook University-SUNY

US News national rank: 41 (TIE)

Average salary: $99,854

University of Colorado-Boulder

US News national rank: 39 (TIE)

Average salary: $99,991

Indiana University-Bloomington

US News national rank: 39 (TIE)

Average salary: $91,632

Binghamton University-SUNY

US News national rank: 38 (TIE)

Average salary: $84,133

University of Delaware

US News national rank: 33 (TIE)

Average salary: $110,113

University of California-Santa Cruz

US News national rank: 33 (TIE)

Average salary: $122,489

North Carolina State University-Raleigh

US News national rank: 33 (TIE)

Average salary: $96,631

Michigan State University

US News national rank: 33 (TIE)

Average salary: $103,699

Florida State University

US News national rank: 33 (TIE)

Average salary: $97,443

University of Iowa

US News national rank: 31 (TIE)

Average salary: $97,424

Miami University-Oxford

US News national rank: 31 (TIE)

Average salary: $81,801

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

US News national rank: 29 (TIE)

Average salary: $110,973

Colorado School of Mines

US News national rank: 29 (TIE)

Average salary: $98,676

Virginia Tech

US News national rank: 25 (TIE)

Average salary: $98,101

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

US News national rank: 25 (TIE)

Average salary: $104,978

Texas A&M University-College Station

US News national rank: 25 (TIE)

Average salary: $101,957

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

US News national rank: 25 (TIE)

Average salary: $105,693

University of Pittsburgh

US News national rank: 24

Average salary: $95,398

Clemson University

US News national rank: 23

Average salary: $89,491

University of Maryland-College Park

US News national rank: 22

Average salary: $115,676

University of Washington

US News national rank: 18 (TIE)

Average salary: $107,873

University of Texas-Austin

US News national rank: 18 (TIE)

Average salary: $79,998

University of Connecticut

US News national rank: 18 (TIE)

Average salary: $109,238

Purdue University-West Lafayette

US News national rank: 18 (TIE)

Average salary: $106,817

University of Georgia

US News national rank: 16 (TIE)

Average salary: $98,438

Ohio State University-Columbus

US News national rank: 16 (TIE)

Average salary: $109,660

University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign

US News national rank: 14 (TIE)

Average salary: $107,091

Pennsylvania State University-University Park

US News national rank: 14 (TIE)

Average salary: $102,129

University of Wisconsin-Madison

US News national rank: 12 (TIE)

Average salary: $106,320

University of California-Davis

US News national rank: 12 (TIE)

Average salary: $123,211

University of Florida

US News national rank: 9 (TIE)

Average salary: $102,592

University of California-San Diego

US News national rank: 9 (TIE)

Average salary: $127,827

University of California-Irvine

US News national rank: 9 (TIE)

Average salary: $130,314

University of California-Santa Barbara

US News national rank: 8

Average salary: $133,660

Georgia Institute of Technology

US News national rank: 7

Average salary: $110,397

College of William and Mary

US News national rank: 6

Average salary: $96,880

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

US News national rank: 5

Average salary: $111,387

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

US News national rank: 4

Average salary: $103,605

University of Virginia

US News national rank: 3

Average salary: $122,466

University of California-Los Angeles

US News national rank: 1 (TIE)

Average salary: $155,059

University of California-Berkeley

US News national rank: 1 (TIE)

Average salary: $146,987

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