In 2005-06 and 2006-07, salaries went up by 3.4 percent and 3.8 percent respectively, according to CUPA-HR.
Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin, however, said that these survey results are not indicative of increases for Princeton professors.
“When we propose salary pools to the Priorities Committee, we do work with a mixture of economic conditions and survey data, but we don’t use general surveys such as [this] one . . . since they do not accurately represent our situation,” he said in an e-mail. “We give salary increase[s] as faculty are promoted through the ranks from assistant to associate to full professor ... I suppose there are faculty who feel that their salaries should be higher though we try to address inequities as well as we can.”
Dobkin declined to provide salary statistics for Princeton, explaining that “salary is a private matter.”
According to the CUPA-HR survey results, increases were greater at private institutions this academic year, a reversal of last year’s trend.
In addition to breaking down increases by professorial rank, the survey also presented total salaries categorized by field of study.
The results showed significant gaps in pay based on discipline. For example, a full professor in engineering received a median salary of $107,134, while a full professor in mathematics was paid a median salary of $81,818. Full professors who specialize in law received the highest pay, at $129,527, while full professors in English were paid the lowest, at $76,793.
David Blei, an assistant professor of computer science, said he was satisfied with his pay increases.
“I don’t really check how much my salary has gone up every year, but I’ve always felt like it’s been very fair,” he said.
Steve Chung, a first-year East Asian studies assistant professor, said that Princeton’s faculty salaries are generous, especially when compared to those at other colleges and universities. He added, however, that “the question of whether salaries are fair in consideration of the work that we do is too complex for me address here.”
Both Blei and Chung said they did not know whether there were salary disparities between departments.
“I can only assume that Princeton has solid safeguards against discriminatory practices,” Chung said.
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