This page includes information about the UW’s new professorial teaching track and associated ranks, which go into effect Sept 16, 2020. For more details, visit the OAP blog.
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.
Salary minimums listed below went into effect September 16, 2019.
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.
| Titles/Ranks/Tracks* | Monthly Rate | |
| Faculty | 9 month | 12 month |
| Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, research, and teaching) | $7,165 | $6,568 |
| Associate Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, research, and teaching) | $6,035 | $5,532 |
| Assistant Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, research, and teaching) | $5,546 | $5,085 |
| Senior Artists in Residence, and Professors of Practice | $4,893 | $4,485 |
| Lecturers, Artists in Residence, Teaching Associates, and Instructors | $4,490 | $4,115 |
| Librarians | Monthly Rate | |
| Librarians | $4,166 | |
| Academic Staff | Monthly Rate | |
| Visiting Scientists | $4,115** | |
| Non-Union Extension Lecturers | $3,600 | |
| Educators | $3,712 | |
* These salary minimums also apply to persons appointed as acting, affiliate, clinical, temporary, and visiting in applicable ranks and titles.
**As of January 1, 2021 this minimum will increase to $4,153.
References: UW Faculty Code Section 24-71 A.3