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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. 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.

Salary minimums effective as of May 1, 2024.
View previous salary minimums: September 15, 2021 – April 30, 2024

Titles/Ranks/Tracks* Monthly Rate
Faculty 9 month 12 month
Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, clinical practice, research, and teaching) $8,195 $7,512
Associate Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, clinical practice, research, and teaching) $7,450 $6,829
Assistant Professors (tenured, tenure track, WOT, clinical practice, research, and teaching) $6,773 $6,208
Senior Artists in Residence, and Professors of Practice $6,157 $5,644
Lecturers, Artists in Residence, Teaching Associates, and Instructors $5,597 $5,131

* These salary minimums also apply to persons appointed as acting, affiliate, clinical, temporary, and visiting in applicable ranks and titles.

Librarians Monthly Rate
Non-Union Librarians $5,644

Academic Staff Monthly Rate
Visiting Scientists $5,644
Non-Union Extension Lecturers $3,754
Educators $3,862

 

References:  UW Faculty Code Section 24-71 A.3