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Across-the-board = the general raise the budget books document for faculty that year. "Got more" = more than the across-the-board by over half a point, i.e. a market, equity or other individual adjustment. In the "without promotion" view the promotion and award increments are removed first.
Click here to see by college data →Average budgeted salary of every full-time (1.0 FTE) faculty line in WSU's six academic colleges, with Dean and Associate/Assistant Dean roles excluded (department chairs are included): tenure-track faculty average $99.8K in FY27 ($88.3K in FY22) and non-tenure-track $75.3K ($62.9K). Those averages also move with who is on the payroll, so the solid lines follow one fixed group: the 178 tenure-track faculty employed full-time in every year FY22–FY27 went from $86.6K to $102.2K (+18.1%), and the 73 non-tenure-track from $61.5K to $79.8K (+29.7%). Anyone who served as chair or associate dean in those years is left out, so stipends do not count as raises. Without promotion and award money (66 of the 178 were promoted in these years and 17 received a Professor Incentive Award; the books' median increment for each is subtracted from that year on) the same tenure-track group went to $98.9K (+14.2%) and the non-tenure-track to $76.3K (+23.9%): that is the general and market raise alone. (Counting everyone employed in both FY22 and FY27, not only every year in between: TT +17.7% for 188 people, NTT +30.0% for 80.) A tenure-track professor earned 40% more than a non-tenure-track colleague in FY22; by FY27 the premium is 32%.
FY27 is the first year in the series that the tenure-track average fell — $102.0K in FY26 to $99.8K (−2.2%). The 35 full-time tenure-track faculty who dropped off the list after FY26 averaged $111.3K; the 19 who joined it average $72.3K. The premium ranges from 45% in the Engineering to 15% in Fine Arts. See every college →
Every person named in the budget books, faculty and staff, with the budgeted salary for the year you pick, the change from the year before, any promotion, Professor Incentive Award or administrative role the books record, and the actual pay reported in the state payroll data. Set From year to see a range: the raise between two years and every promotion, award or role in between. Pick an academic college to see its faculty and the staff in its departments and dean's office. Click a name for the full history.
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