This is the fourth table from the so-called “Cartel” summary report from December 1965 of 9-10 month salaries paid in U.S. economics departments. Table 4c give figures for the distribution of salaries for “freshly completed PhD’s” across the departments reporting. Previous postings gave the distribution for full-professors, the distribution for associate professors, and the distribution for assistant professors. The next posting has the anticipated (as of December 1965) range of salaries to hire freshly completed PhD’s for the coming academic year, 1966-67. Refer to the first posting in this series of tables for information about the compiler Professor Francis Boddy of the University of Minnesota and a list of the 30 departments belonging to the Chairmen’s Group.
Using the BLS web CPI Inflation calculator, one can inflate nominal levels (say for December 1965, the date of the report) to April 2017 using a factor of 7.69.
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TABLE 4c
Entering Salaries of “Freshly Completed PhD’s” of New Staff Members
in the Fall of 1965-66 1964-65
| MINIMUM | MEDIAN | MAXIMUM | ||||
| MID-POINT OF RANGE | 1965-66 | 1964-65 | 1965-66 | 1964-65 | 1965-66 |
1964-65 |
|
Over 10,999 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10,500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
1 |
|
10,000 |
2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 9,750 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
0 |
|
9,500 |
4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 9,250 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
3 |
|
9,000 |
3 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| 8,750 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
1 |
|
8,500 |
4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| 8,250 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
1 |
|
8,000 |
2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7,750 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 |
|
7,500 |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 7,250 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 |
|
N= |
21 | 21 | 21 | 25 | 20 | 23 |
| Median | $9,000 | $8,500 | $9,250 | $8,750 | $9,750 |
$9,000 |
|
Mean |
$8,952 | $8,583 | $9,190 | $8,820 | $9,600 |
$8,913 |
Source: Johns Hopkins University. The Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Archives. Department of Political Economy, Series 5, Box 6, Folder 2 “Statistical Information”.