Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State University’s faculty union is planning to strike after the university’s board made a last best offer that didn’t include pay raises.
President Cheryl Schrader has said faculty at WSU have higher salaries than their peers at similar state universities.
Wright State’s main campus professors make an average $119,600, associate professors make $92,700, assistant professors make $78,000 and instructors make $59,700. The university had nearly 17,000 students enrolled in 2017.
Here’s how the salaries stack up to the main campuses at other Ohio institutions, according to a 2017-18 American Association of University Professors report.
Cleveland State (16,662 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $112,200
- Associate professors: $84,200
- Assistant professors: $80,300
- Instructors: $67,300
Bowling Green State University (19,423 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $110,100
- Associate professors: $84,800
- Assistant professors: $74,100
- Instructors: $52,400
University of Toledo (20,491 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $119,400
- Associate professors: $96,000
- Assistant professors: $84,000
- Instructors: $68,800
University of Akron (22,101 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $114,000
- Associate professors: $87,400
- Assistant professors: $76,400
- Instructors: $54,000
Miami University (24,283 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $124,400
- Associate professors: $90,400
- Assistant professors: $89,400
- Instructors: $46,800
Ohio University (36,287 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $112,700
- Associate professors: $86,800
- Assistant professors: $78,700
- Instructors: No instructor salary listed
Kent State (39,598 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $118,400
- Associate professors: $90,700
- Assistant professors: $75,400
- Instructors: No instructor salary listed
University of Cincinnati (44,969 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $125,100
- Associate professors: $86,500
- Assistant professors: $76,000
- Instructors: $53,700
Ohio State University (67,524 enrolled students in 2017)
- Professors: $150,000
- Associate professors: $101,300
- Assistant professors: $89,400
- Instructors: $124,000
