Keep Your Compensation Strategy Ahead of the Curve
Address the compensation challenges facing colleges and universities with reliable market data and tools. From benchmarking faculty pay by academic rank and discipline to managing compensation across administrative, professional, research, and leadership roles, ERI helps higher education teams make informed compensation decisions that support their workforce and institutional goals.
- Benchmark faculty and staff salaries across academic and administrative roles throughout your institution.
- Build compensation structures that reflect differences in academic rank, job level, and institutional responsibilities.
- Review pay equity across faculty and staff populations to identify meaningful compensation differences.
How It Works
Higher Education Sub-Industries
Public Colleges & Universities
Private Colleges & Universities
Community Colleges & Technical Colleges
Research Universities & Academic Medical Institutions
Public Colleges & Universities
Private Colleges & Universities
Community Colleges & Technical Colleges
Research Universities & Academic Medical Institutions
Higher Education Compensation Solutions
Benchmark Faculty Pay Across Disciplines
Faculty compensation varies by academic discipline and role. Colleges and universities need relevant higher education salary data to benchmark positions in areas such as business, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. ERI’s Salary Assessor helps compare market pay for faculty positions and identify compensation differences that can inform competitive pay decisions.
Manage Distinct Faculty and Staff Pay Structures
Higher education institutions manage distinct faculty and staff career structures with different responsibilities and pay frameworks. ERI’s real-time compensation data helps you benchmark roles against relevant market rates and build salary ranges for each workforce segment. Maintain consistent pay practices while accounting for differences in academic rank, job level, and role responsibilities.
Compare Pay Across Campuses and Academic Labor Markets
Account for geographic pay differences across campuses and locations with ERI’s Geographic Assessor. Compensation teams can compare wages and salary differentials across local labor markets to build location-based salary structures and set competitive pay for faculty and staff.
Strengthen Pay Equity and Internal Consistency
Higher education institutions manage compensation across faculty ranks, departments, campuses, and staff job levels, making it difficult to identify where pay differences may exist. Use ERI’s Pay Equity tools to analyze compensation across employee groups, identify potential disparities, and support consistent, defensible pay decisions throughout the institution.
Plan Faculty and Staff Pay Within Institutional Budgets
Balancing competitive salaries and employee pay increases within defined operating budgets and competing institutional priorities can make compensation planning challenging. ERI’s Compensation Management Platform enables you to plan salary increases, manage pay structures, and evaluate employee compensation to support competitive pay while staying aligned with institutional budgets.
Benchmark Complex and Hybrid Higher Education Roles
University roles often span responsibilities across student services, technology, research administration, compliance, and academic operations, making it difficult to benchmark jobs by title alone. ERI’s AI Job Matching tool matches roles, including complex and hybrid positions, based on job responsibilities to help identify relevant market benchmarks and set competitive pay across the higher education workforce.
Build a Smarter Compensation Strategy for Higher Education
Compensation Decisions Across Campus
Human Resources and Compensation
Finance and Budget Planning
Academic and Administrative Leadership
Talent Acquisition and Recruitment
Tools for Higher Education Compensation Decisions
Higher Education Job Titles
- Academic Vice President
- Associate Dean
- Associate Vice Provost
- Chancellor College
- College Chancellor
- College Department Head
- Dean of Students
- Department Head College or University
- Top Education Officer
- University Athletic Director
- University Department Head
- University Registrar
- Vice Chancellor
- Vice President Education
- Vice President Student Affairs
- Vice Provost
- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor
- Full Professor University
- Professor
- Professor Assistant
- Professor Associate
- College/University Teacher
- Online College/University School Teacher
- Teacher College/University
- University/College Teacher
- Business Education Instructor
- Mathematics Instructor
- Nursing Instructor
- Medical Nursing Instructor
- Academic Advising Director
- Academic Advisor
- Admissions Director
- Admissions Coordinator College
- Bursar
- Career Advisor
- Financial Aid Counselor
- International Student Advisor
- Registrar College or University
- Student Affairs Specialist
- Student Retention Specialist
- Student Services Director
- Study Abroad Advisor
- Coordinator Work Study
- Housing Coordinator
- Campus Director
- Business Manager College/University
- College/University Business Manager
- Manager Business College/University
- Research Associate
- Research Manager
- Research Technician
- Computer & Information Research Scientist
- Biomedical Research Scientist
- Clinical Research Director
- Clinical Research Scientist
- Environmental Scientist
- Research Engineer
- Grant Coordinator
- Laboratory Supervisor University
Higher Education FAQs
What types of higher education jobs can ERI benchmark? 
ERI provides compensation data for a broad range of higher education positions, including faculty, executives, administrators, researchers, student services professionals, technology employees, facilities staff, and other professional and support roles. Colleges and universities can use this data to benchmark compensation across their workforce.
How can ERI help higher education institutions plan compensation budgets?
ERI helps colleges and universities plan compensation budgets by modeling faculty and staff salary adjustments, merit increases, and pay costs across departments, campuses, and employee groups.
How can ERI help higher education institutions evaluate total rewards?
ERI provides compensation and benefits data that can help institutions evaluate salaries and broader total rewards programs. Institutions can use this information to compare their offerings with the market and support competitive compensation strategies.
Can ERI help multi-campus institutions compare pay across locations?
Yes. ERI’s Geographic Assessor helps higher education institutions compare wage and salary differences across cities and geographic markets, supporting location-based pay decisions for multi-campus workforces.
How can universities benchmark salaries by faculty rank?
ERI helps universities compare faculty compensation using relevant market salary data for academic roles and faculty ranks. Compensation teams can use these benchmarks to evaluate pay differences and support salary decisions across their academic workforce.
How can ERI help benchmark specialized or hybrid higher education roles?
ERI’s AI Job Matching tool helps match specialized and hybrid higher education roles to relevant market data based on job responsibilities rather than job titles alone. This tool helps benchmark positions that combine responsibilities across areas such as student services, technology, research administration, compliance, and academic operations.
