The declining growth rates among clinical faculty do not appear to be shared by their basic science colleagues. The average salaries of basic science faculty increased across the entire study period and at a progressively greater rate in the last five years. This corresponds to a time of increased research funding by the National Institutes of Health. In future studies, AAMC staff plan to try to better understand the implications of these trends, as well as to compare salary levels of academic physicians by specialty to their counterparts in private practice and to explore how any differentials in compensation have changed for these two groups over time. Because salaries for Ph.D. faculty in basic sciences varied so little across departments, data have been aggregated across those departments.
All data exclude faculty at the instructor rank.
2 Means for 1993 and 1998 were adjusted based on the rank distributions of faculty in 1988. Click Here to Return to Fact Sheet Home Page.