Salary Minimums
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. Salary minimums also apply to persons appointed as acting, affiliate, clinical, temporary, and visiting in any of the applicable ranks and titles below. 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 (including WOT and Research) | $7,165 | $6,568 |
| Associate Professors (including WOT and Research) | $6,035 | $5,532 |
| Assistant Professors (including WOT and Research) | $5,546 | $5,085 |
| Principal Lecturers | $5,431 | $4,978 |
| Senior Lecturers, 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.
References: UW Policy Directory, Faculty Code, Chapter 24-71 Section A.3