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Salaries and Salary Scales of Full-time Teaching Staff at Canadian Universities, 2006/2007: Preliminary Report
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Background
A note on confidentiality
Salaries of full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities and colleges
Target population
Salary scales for university teachers
Universities covered in this report (listed by province)
Background
The data in this report are drawn from the University and College Academic Staff Survey (UCASS). Conducted since 1946, UCASS presents a national picture of the socio-economic characteristics of full-time university teachers in degree-granting institutions. The survey is conducted annually, with a reference date of October 1. Therefore, the data collected through this survey present a snapshot of full-time teaching staff as of that date.
This report presents information on the salaries of full-time teaching staff at 22 Canadian universities, along with information on their salary scales for the 2006/2007 academic year.
It should be noted that many factors can influence salaries, including qualifications and number of years teaching. As well, some universities impose a maximum to the salary range for each rank while others have an open-ended scale.
A note on confidentiality
The University and College Academic Staff Survey is conducted under the Statistics Act. To release data at the institutional level, institutions must authorize Statistics Canada to release their information. Furthermore, to ensure the confidentiality of individuals, Statistics Canada will not release data at the institutional level for any institution with fewer than 100 full-time teaching staff. For institutions with more than 100 staff, the data is available at the institutional level however, information is processed in such a way that results are not shown where there are too few individuals.
Due to the Statistics Act which, in part, prohibits the identification of individuals, a number of measures have been taken to ensure that no one individual or their salary can be identified or extrapolated. Information is processed in such a way that the mean is not shown when the given rank contains less than six (6) people and medians and percentiles are not calculated when there are less than 10 people.
Salaries of full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities and colleges
The tables (see the PDF version) present, for each of the universities listed below, the number of full-time teaching staff, along with their average and median salaries.
In addition, as a measure of distribution, the salary at the 10th and 90th percentile is given. In other words, the teaching staff is ranked by salary from lowest to highest and divided into ten even groups; the values presented in the table are the cutoff points for the lowest and highest 10% of the distribution.
Target population
The target population of this survey is full-time teaching staff in degree-granting institutions who are under contract for twelve months or more. This includes all teachers within faculties, academic staff in teaching hospitals, visiting academic staff in faculties and research staff who have an academic rank and salary similar to teaching staff. Administrative and support staff and librarians are excluded, as are staff solely engaged in research. Teaching and research assistants are also excluded.
The salary represents the reported annual rate of pay plus administrative stipends, if any, for all reported faculty members, including those on sabbatical leave.
Salary scales for university teachers
The final table in this report (see the PDF version) presents 2006/2007 salary scales for full-time university teachers. The 67 institutions included in this table are those that reported their scales by the end of June, 2007. Note that the institutions included in this table are not a subset of the institutions covered in the salary tables.
Most universities for which information is included here reported their salary scales as final.
Universities covered in this report (listed by province)
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Memorial University
Prince Edward Island
- University of Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
- Acadia University
- Atlantic School of Theology
- Université Sainte-Anne
- Dalhousie University
- Mount St. Vincent University
- Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design
- St. Francis Xavier University
- St. Mary’s University
- University of King’s College
- Cape Breton University
- Nova Scotia Agricultural College
New Brunswick
- Mount Allison University
- University of New Brunswick
- Université de Moncton (Parent Institution)
- Université de Moncton – Campus de Shippagan
- St. Thomas University
Ontario
- Brock University
- Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary
- University of Guelph
- Lakehead University
- Laurentian University
- Collège Universitaire de Hearst
- Huntington University
- University of Sudbury
- Thorneloe University
- McMaster University
- University of Ottawa
- Université Saint-Paul
- Queen’s University
- University of Toronto
- University of St. Michael’s College
- University of Trinity College
- Victoria University
- Knox College
- Trent University
- University of Waterloo
- St. Jerome’s University
- King’s University College
- University of Windsor
- York University
- Collège Dominicain de Philosophie et de Théologie
- Ryerson University
- Redeemer University College
- Nipissing University
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology
- Ontario College of Art and Design
Manitoba
- Brandon University
- University of Manitoba
- Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface
- Canadian Mennonite University
Saskatchewan
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saint Thomas More College
- Luther College
Alberta
- University of Alberta
- University of Calgary
- Canadian University College
- University of Lethbridge
- Athabasca University
- The King’s University College
- Concordia University College of Alberta
- Canadian Nazarene University College
- Alliance University College
British Columbia
- University of British Columbia
- Simon Fraser University
- University of Victoria
- University of Northern British Columbia
