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AACSB International. Salary Survey Reports: Executive Summaries. AACSB.*

Summary by James R. Martin, Ph.D., CMA
Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida

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Note: Part I of this summary includes mean faculty salaries from the 2012-2013, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2019-2020, and 2020-2021 reports for accounting faculty. Part II includes 2019-2020 median and mean faculty salaries for 18 business disciplines.

Part I: Mean Accounting faculty salaries for various years.

Accounting: Mean 9-Month Faculty Salary

Rank
2020-2021
2021-2022
Professor
$186,100
Associate Professor
156,390
Assistant Professor
150,630
Instructor
88,760

Accounting: Mean 9-Month Faculty Salary

Rank
2017-2018
2019-2020
Professor
$170,700
$183,220
Associate Professor
143,300
151,170
Assistant Professor
143,700
147,440
Instructor
82,100
87,290

Accounting: Mean 9-Month Faculty Salary

Rank
2012-2013
2015-2016
Professor
$147,900
$163,800
Associate Professor
125,900
139,300
Assistant Professor
131,600
145,600
Instructor
71,800
79,200


Part II: The following tables include 2019-2020 median and mean faculty salaries for 18 Business Disciplines. If covers 33,440 full time faculty from 455 schools: 21 from Asia Pacific, 38 from Europe and the Middle East, 30 from Canada, 8 from Latin America and the Caribean, and 417 from the United States.

Accounting: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$161,800
$183,220
Associate Professor
143,100
151,170
Assistant Professor
141,100
147,440
Instructor
80,300
87,290

Behavioral Science/Organizational Behavior: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$194,300
$205,050
Associate Professor
145,200
149,790
Assistant Professor
131,400
127,420
Instructor
89,600
96,900

CIS/MIS: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$144,950
$158,480
Associate Professor
126,220
130,100
Assistant Professor
120,000
119,170
Instructor
77,200
81,600

Economics: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$128,000
$151,300
Associate Professor
105,350
112,020
Assistant Professor
94,000
98,880
Instructor
70,300
73,490

Entrepreneurship: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$143,200
$163,340
Associate Professor
125,420
129,310
Assistant Professor
116,460
113,530
Instructor
85,090
90,250

Finance: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$168,600
$197,670
Associate Professor
144,150
154,060
Assistant Professor
147,160
153,790
Instructor
92,750
98,690

General Business: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$78,480
$98,710
Associate Professor
95,540
100,230
Assistant Professor
48,880
66,880
Instructor
65,750
71,370

Health/Hospital Administration: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$126,400
$140,940
Associate Professor
114,810
111,830
Assistant Professor
101,250
101,460
Instructor
94,000
95,000

Hotel and Restaurant/Tourism: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$125,740
$132,110
Associate Professor
109,230
110,960
Assistant Professor
87,500
89,570
Instructor
90,000
85,420

Human Resource Management: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$131,230
$141,800
Associate Professor
104,790
103,220
Assistant Professor
100,050
96,740
Instructor
74,500
74,240

International Business: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$144,000
$152,370
Associate Professor
115,650
121,170
Assistant Professor
98,450
101,800
Instructor
79,400
78,010

Management: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$130,550
$145,160
Associate Professor
114,100
118,430
Assistant Professor
105,200
106,430
Instructor
76,400
78,410

Marketing: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$149,100
$174,120
Associate Professor
128,000
132,950
Assistant Professor
120,000
121,580
Instructor
80,250
83,220

Production/Operations Management: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$162,740
$177,090
Associate Professor
134,750
138,800
Assistant Professor
129,600
129,580
Instructor
87,700
93,580

Quantitative Methods: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$155,400
$162,940
Associate Professor
123,250
127,190
Assistant Professor
121,420
120,090
Instructor
81,400
84,840

Strategic Management: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$170,000
$184,950
Associate Professor
135,000
139,880
Assistant Professor
125,000
122,440
Instructor
89,000
93,900

Supply Chain/Logistics: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$154,580
$162,740
Associate Professor
131,600
129,120
Assistant Professor
122,850
116,010
Instructor
88,200
91,370

Taxation: 9-Month Faculty Salary 2019-2020

Rank
Median
Mean
Professor
$156,100
$163,990
Associate Professor
130,000
134,550
Assistant Professor
154,500
156,290
Instructor
94,250
97,490


* The 2020-2021 salaries are from the AACSB Business School Data Guide. Prior years are from the Executive Summaries. See AACSB International for the full reports. global-salary-survey-report

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