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Data from a study of 1,597 faculty members at a single US university. Includes information on monthly salary each year from 1976 through 1995, as well as sex, highest degree attained, year of highest degree, field, year hired, rank, and administrative duties. More information, including a coding key, is available at http://www.emersonstatistics.com/datasets/salary.doc.

Usage

salary

Format

A data frame with 19792 rows and 11 variables:

case

case number

id

identification number for the faculty member

sex

M (male) or F (female)

deg

highest degree attained: PhD, Prof (professional degree, eg, medicine or law), or Other (Master's or Bachelor's degree)

yrdeg

year highest degree attained

field

Arts (Arts and Humanities), Prof (professional school, e.g., Business, Law, Engineering or Public Affairs), or Other

startyr

year in which the faculty member was hired (2 digits)

year

year (2 digits)

rank

rank of the faculty member in this year: Assist (Assistant), Assoc (Associate), or Full (Full)

admin

Indicator of whether the faculty member had administrative duties (eg, department chair) in this year: 1 (yes), or 0 (no)

salary

monthly salary of the faculty member in this year in dollars