International Comparison of Academic Salaries
Posted by Celia Walter | 11 Nov, 2008International Comparison of Academic Salaries (PDF; 686 KB)
Source: Boston College Center for International Higher Education
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/salary_report.pdf
South Africa, is included.
From Inside Higher Ed:
“International Comparison of Academic Salaries,” prepared by three scholars at the Boston College Center for International Higher Education, represents one of the more ambitious efforts to compare faculty pay across national lines. While some existing studies look at members of certain groups (the Association of Commonwealth Universities, for example, which tends to have as members the leading universities of a country) or regions (Europe), there have been few efforts to compare salaries across different types of institutions and countries.
The new study covers only 15 countries, and generally includes only four-year institutions for comparative purposes. But it includes countries in the developed and developing worlds, and from regions worldwide. To reflect differences in the cost of living, the study is based on World Bank Purchasing Power Parity dollars. These are U.S. dollars for the United States average, but for other countries they are adjusted to reflect local purchasing power. So pure U.S. dollar averages would go up in countries where the cost of living was relatively low; that adjusted total would represent the World Bank dollar figure quoted in the study. The Boston College researchers acknowledge in the report that there are arguments to be made for alternative parity measures, but they ended up using the World Bank figures because they were available for all of the countries studied.