The College and University Personnel Association — HR (CUPA-HR) 2009 salary survey unsurprisingly shows salaries for academic historians have remained relatively flat over the past year. Overall, there’s slight annual growth in each category with the largest growth, surprisingly, in the new assitant professor hires category. Robert Townsend of the AHA says that this is the smallest annual growth for academic historians in the last fifteen years. He also points out that
the staff at CUPA—HR note that any upward growth can be seen as positive at a time when the Consumer Price Index for the past year was negative (indicating the costs of goods and services fell by 0.4 percent). But many historians are undoubtedly wondering where these gains are occurring in the midst of widespread salary freezes and furloughs. Their survey confirms that almost one-third of all faculty members in continuing positions saw a decline in their salaries, though they do not provide a specific estimate for historians.
2009-2010 CUPA-HR Salary Survey of Academic Historians.
