Harvard Salaries by the Numbers

As this week’s Scrutiny focuses on tenure at Harvard, FM takes a look into how our professors are actually doing for themselves.

$198,400 Average salary for a full professor in 2012

$201,600 Average salary for a male full professors in 2012

$187,500 Average salary for a female full professors in 2012

+$69,500 Change in average full professor salary at Harvard since 2000

1,084 Number of full professors at Harvard

$54,496 Cost of undergraduate attendance at Harvard 2012-13

3.4 The average number of student tuitions needed to pay the average Harvard professor

$120,900 Average salary for associate professors in 2012

$109,800 Average salary for assistant professors in 2012

$56,700 Average salary for non-ladder instructors in 2012

$875,331 Total compensation for Drew Faust in 2010

#1 Harvard’s rank for average faculty salaries in the world