Abstract
This article reports results from a national survey of faculty salaries in undergraduate radio and television programs during the 1984 to 1985 academic year. Responses from one hundred ninety four departments yielded data for seven hundred twenty eight full time faculty, making it the most comprehensive salary profile in the field at the time. Salaries were analyzed by rank, institutional type, campus size, geographic region, and departmental structure. Findings indicate mean ten month salaries of approximately forty one thousand five hundred for full professors, thirty one thousand seven hundred for associate professors, twenty five thousand two hundred for assistant professors, and twenty thousand five hundred for instructors. Salaries were consistently higher in autonomous media departments than in integrated communication units and were positively correlated with institution size and public funding. Regional differences were minimal when sufficient cases were available. Comparison with a 1982 to 1983 survey shows increases of roughly twenty percent across ranks, paralleling trends in non academic media professions. Cross disciplinary comparisons suggest that radio and television faculty salaries exceed those in speech and theatre but fall slightly below the overall average for all academic fields.
Recommended Citation
Elmore, Garland C.
(1986)
"A Second National Survey of Faculty Salaries in Radio and Television,"
Association for Communication Administration Bulletin: Vol. 56, Article 9.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/aca/vol56/iss1/9
