My wife will be finishing her PhD within the next two years.  I am
doing a little bit of preliminary financial research on her behalf. 
More than likely, whe will immediately step into some sort of
professorship.  Is there a web site that gives professor salary
information for every (most) schools (in the US)?  Or, is every
school, public and private, required to publish such information?  We
are more than likely looking at private liberal arts and graduate
schools.  Any information that is more specific than industry wide,
nation wide "averages" would be helpful.  However, in a perfect world,
the answer would be a web site that lists such information as:

  For PhD holding Professors:
      Entry Level:  $XX,XXX
      5 Years:  $YY,YYY
      Tenure:  $ZZ,ZZZ
      etc...

Any help at all would be great!

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 17 Oct 2004 15:58 PDT

Would this meet your needs?

http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/

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Clarification of Question by tnsdan-ga on 17 Oct 2004 16:33 PDT

Pink-

That web site is great!  I am more than happy to accept that as an
answer, however, I have a brief clarification...

The site you provided, although more than thorough, is not
exhausitive.  It is, of course, unreasonable to expect that any site
could be.  In particular, I noticed that it does not list many private
schools (including where I did my Bachelor's degree!), although it
does list many others.  However, it listed every public school that I
searched for.  Are private schools not bound to disclose this
information?  Perhaps state law has an effect on this (for example, I
found ALL of the private schools I searched for in Kentucky, but very
few in Indiana.

Thanks for your help!

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 17 Oct 2004 17:03 PDT

I'll leave the question unlocked in hopes that another Researcher will
be able to find something more comprehensive for you. I am not aware
of a better database of professors' salaries, but I don't know
everything (yet).

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Clarification of Question by tnsdan-ga on 18 Oct 2004 06:02 PDT

Pink-

Please close the question.  The web site you found me is more than
thorough enough.  My clarification question was more out of curiousity
than in actually hunting down every single school in the country! 
Thanks for your help!

Thank you very much for accepting my suggestion as the answer to your
question. I've reposted the link below, with another link to the same
site that may be of interest.

The Chronicle of Higher Education: AAUP Faculty Salary Survey
http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/

The Chronicle of Higher Education: What Professors Earn
http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i33/33a01301.htm

Regarding the matter of whether or not private schools are required to
divulge faculty salaries, I have found no indication that there is a
legal requirement for a private school to release this information to
the public. Privately-owned businesses typically keep such statistics
to themselves, since the publication of this kind of data might lead
to dissatisfaction in the ranks among those who become aware that they
are underpaid. I can well imagine an angry mob of assistant professors
storming the administrative offices, carrying torches and chanting
"Hey hey, ho ho, chickenfeed wages have got to go."

Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: university OR college faculty salary
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=university+OR+college+faculty+salary

I hope this helps! Please let me know if anything requires clarification.

Very best regards,
pinkfreud

Pink-

I can certainly imagine my lovely bride in an angry mob of assistant
professors with a flaming torch and a pitchfork.  Nonetheless, a
little information ahead of time never hurts.  Thank you for your help
and for your thoughts on provate schools.  Maybe I need to send in
spies.

Thank you very much for the five stars and the nice tip!

Regarding the matter of sending in spies, these days this is called
"networking," and it's a standard tool among academic job-hunters,
along with the torch and the pitchfork. ;-)

~Pink