I've mentioned that South Carolina is seeing significant increases in state higher ed funding recently & you can see that here. A big increase from $7,918 per student in 2023 to $9,234 in 2024 & $9,304 in 2025. My home state of Ohio was at only $5,439 per student in 2025 & that was down from 2024.
David Darmofal
Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26.
It is sobering.
Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008.
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This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.
