The following page comes from a folder holding miscellaneous items from George Stigler’s days at Columbia. One presumes it comes from a report, presumably before his time there, giving reference average salaries by rank for three budget years. Since salaries within a department are set with an eye to the university pay policy as well as the salaries paid elsewhere, this is interesting information for the immediate pre-WWI period, the peak before the Great Depression, and the Great Depression’s trough.
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SALARIES IN NON-PROFESSIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOLS
AND COLUMBIA COLLEGE (BUDGET YEARS)
|
Total number |
Minimum salary in grade |
Total of all salary payments in grade |
Salary |
||
| Instructors: | |||||
|
1913-14 |
63 |
$1,000 | $91,000 |
$1,444 |
|
|
1929-30 |
125 |
2,400 | 341,000 |
2,728 |
|
|
1932-33 |
132 |
2,400 | 357,000 |
2,704 |
|
| Assistant Professors: | |||||
|
1913-14 |
45 |
2,000 | 105,300 |
2,340 |
|
|
1929-30 |
76 |
3,500 | 293,400 |
3,860 |
|
|
1932-33 |
73 |
3,600 | 285,400 |
3,909 |
|
| Associate Professors: | |||||
|
1913-14 |
17 |
3,000 | 58,700 |
3,453 |
|
|
1929-30 |
45 |
5,000 | 236,500 |
5,255 |
|
|
1932-33 |
53 |
5,000 ($4,500 [for] 1) |
281,500 |
5,311 |
|
| PROFESSORS: | corrected | ||||
|
1913-14 |
67 |
3,500 (3,000 [for] 2) |
320,775 |
4757 |
|
|
1929-30 |
114 |
7,500 | 955,500 |
8,381 |
|
|
1932-33 |
119 |
7,500 (6,000 [for]1) |
1,009,500 |
8,484 |
|
| Grand totals of above: | corrected | ||||
|
1913-14 |
192 |
$575,775 |
$2,390 |
||
|
1929-30 |
360 |
1,826,400 |
5,080 |
||
|
1932-33 |
377 |
1,933,400 |
5,120 |
||
Source: University of Chicago Archives. George Stigler Papers. Addenda, Box 33; Folder “Papers from Columbia University 1947-58”.
Source Image: 1913 Columbia University, Library. New York Public Library, Digital Collections .