Amanda Brodish unveiled the latest Mean and Median Salary Report from the Office of Institutional Research and Analytics at the March 20 meeting of the University Senate’s Budget Policies Committee.
Brodish, assistant provost for institutional research and analytics, said the annual report — a version of which is shared with commonwealth of Pennsylvania officials — offers salary figures for all Pitt faculty and staff, organized by responsibility center.
It covers full-time personnel who were regular, rather than temporary, faculty or staff as of Oct.31, 2025. Faculty are divided among their ranks: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor and lecturer (or their equivalent in library ranks). Postdoctoral associates and research associates are classified separately as well.
Staff are grouped within occupational activity categories: executive- or senior-level officials and managers, first- or mid-level officials and managers, professionals, administrative support workers, craft workers, sales workers, service workers and technicians. Executive staff such as deans are listed under the unit to whom they report, rather than with the faculty they oversee.
Brodish also noted several caveats. Salaries for faculty with twelve-month contracts are converted to a nine-month equivalent. The report also suppresses salary figures for faculty in a particular rank, or staff in a particular occupational activity category, when there are three or fewer in that grouping, because individuals in such small groups are more readily identifiable.
Also, she said, figures for School of Medicine faculty salaries include only their Pitt salaries, not those for associated Pitt practice groups, and thus appear to be lower than they are in total.
See the full report here.
— Marty Levine
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