The University has established minimum full-time monthly rates of pay for faculty, librarians, and other academic personnel. These salary minimums apply to all titles, ranks, and tracks listed below regardless of funding source or length of appointment. Note: These salary rates are minimums. In determining an appropriate salary, there are likely to be factors which justify a unit exceeding the salary minimums.
Academic personnel titles not appearing on the table below are either governed by a collective bargaining agreement or are not subject to a UW monthly base salary minimum. In rare circumstances when academic personnel are approved to work on an hourly basis, state and federal salary minimums shall apply.
Faculty
| Titles/Ranks/Tracks* | Monthly Rate | |
| Faculty | 9 month | 12 month |
| Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, research, and teaching) | $7,452 | $6,831 |
| Associate Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, research, and teaching) | $6,276 | $5,753 |
| Assistant Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, research, and teaching) | $5,768 | $5,287 |
| Senior Artists in Residence, and Professors of Practice | $5,089 | $4,665 |
| Lecturers, Artists in Residence, Teaching Associates, and Instructors | $4,670 | $4,281 |
* These salary minimums also apply to persons appointed as acting, affiliate, clinical, temporary, and visiting in applicable ranks and titles.
Librarians
| Librarians | Monthly Rate | |
| Non-Union Librarians | $4,396** | |
**Starting January 1, 2024, the new minimum monthly rate for overtime exempt employees will be $5,644. Librarians who do not meet the overtime exempt minimum will become overtime eligible employees who are required to track all hours and be paid 1.5 times their regular hourly-equivalent rate for hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek.
Academic Staff
| Academic Staff | Monthly Rate | |
| Visiting Scientists | $5,457* | |
| Non-Union Extension Lecturers | $3,745 | |
| Educators | $3,786 | |
*Effective January 1, 2024, the new minimum monthly rate for Visiting Scientists will increase to $5,644.
Previous salary minimums: September 16, 2019-September 15, 2021
References: UW Faculty Code Section 24-71 A.3