Built to support shared governance: informed faculty are better partners in deciding how a public university spends its students' tuition and taxpayers' money. This page puts the budget numbers, faculty pay and peer comparisons in one place, in plain language, for everyone to examine.
Unofficial, independent and not guaranteed accurate — do your own assessment. This site is a personal, independent compilation of publicly published budget books, budgeted-employee reports and state payroll records. It is not affiliated with, reviewed by or endorsed by Wichita State University or any other university, and nothing here is an official figure or statement. The numbers were extracted by software and the answers are generated by an AI assistant; both can contain errors (mis-read lines, mis-matched names, mis-classified titles, mistaken interpretation), and salary figures are budgeted or payroll amounts, not what any person ultimately earned. Nothing on this site is advice, and it must not be used for any employment, compensation, evaluation or other decision. Treat everything as a starting point: ask the data box your own questions, plot what you want to see, and verify against the official documents linked at the bottom under Check the sources yourself.
Ask about a faculty salary, a department or college average (tenure-track vs. non-tenure-track), a budget line, a trend over the years, or a comparison between universities. Answers come only from the source documents and arrive as a table and chart whenever the numbers call for one — or click a suggested follow-up.
Pick a college to open its own page: how many full-time tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty it has, what they are paid, how that has moved since FY22, every faculty member's budgeted salary and actual income over time (filter by name, department, track or year), and department-level figures. Dean, Associate/Assistant Dean and department-chair roles are excluded throughout.
The university-level picture on one page: WSU's Instruction spending against Kansas State, Oklahoma, Nebraska–Omaha and Colorado State; where the revenue comes from and where it goes; filled tenure-track and non-tenure-track positions and average pay since FY22; every budget program and division FY23–FY27; and what moved.
An AI-assisted look at where public universities spend their money and what they pay their faculty. Ask any question in the box above — a salary, a department average, a budget line, a trend, or a comparison — and it is answered from the universities' own published budget books, budgeted-employee reports, and state payroll data: Wichita State (FY2019–FY2027), Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska (UNL, UNO, UNK), and Oklahoma.
Individual faculty salaries: budgeted salary by name, rank and department is available for every faculty member at Wichita State, the University of Kansas, and the University of Nebraska campuses (UNL, UNO, UNK). Actual income (calendar-year total pay actually received, from state payroll records via KansasOpenGov) is available for every employee at the three Kansas universities — WSU, KU and Kansas State — for 2021–2025.
This site is a personal, independent compilation and analysis of publicly available documents: the annual operating budget books and budgeted-employee reports published by Wichita State University, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, the University of Nebraska system and the University of Oklahoma, enrollment factbooks, and the State of Kansas payroll records published through KansasOpenGov. It is not an official publication, statement, or position of any of those universities, the Kansas Board of Regents, the State of Kansas, or any of their offices, and has not been reviewed or endorsed by them. The author is a faculty member acting in a personal capacity.
Figures were extracted programmatically from PDF and spreadsheet documents, linked across years and across sources by name, and summarized by software. The "Ask the data" answers and the "why this salary changed" explanations are generated by an AI assistant from that data. While figures were cross-checked against the source documents during preparation, extraction, name-matching, title-classification, department-merging and AI-interpretation errors are possible, and some figures (hire-year vacancy budgets, split budget lines, merged department names) are the author's reconstructions, explained where they appear. Budgeted salaries are what a budget book funded a position at, and payroll figures are calendar-year totals as published by the state; neither is a statement of what any individual ultimately earned, and none of it is advice. Nothing on this site should be used for any employment, compensation, evaluation, hiring or other decision about any person — readers should verify against the original source documents linked in this page's footer. Everything is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, and the author accepts no liability for errors or for any use made of it. Names appear only as they are printed in those public records; anyone who believes a figure about them is wrong is invited to point to the source line and it will be corrected. Category labels ("Instruction," "Academic Support," "Institutional Support," etc.) and their plain-language descriptions reflect WSU's own budget-program definitions; the "faculty salary proxy" language used for Instruction is this author's characterization, not an official designation, since the Instruction program also includes some non-salary instructional costs.
Headlines, framing, and commentary throughout this page reflect this author's interpretation of the underlying public data and are offered for informational and discussion purposes only. They are not statements of fact about any individual's or office's conduct, are not intended to imply wrongdoing, and should not be relied upon as financial, legal, or official institutional guidance.