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Salary and salary scales of full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities

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2008/2009 (preliminary) (Previous release)

Information is now available on the salaries of full-time teaching staff at 65 Canadian universities, for the 2008/2009 academic year. The institutions that are included are all those that have completed the survey by the beginning of April 2009.

This bulletin presents information on the salaries of full-time teaching staff at 27 Canadian universities for 2008/2009. The institutions that are included are those who completed the survey by the beginning of April and who have more than 100 staff. In 2006/2007 (the last year for which final data on full-time teaching staff is available) these 27 institutions accounted for 41% of the full-time teaching staff of the 116 institutions that were included in the survey.

In addition, information on the 2008/2009 salary scales for full-time university teachers is also presented in this report and includes all those institutions (regardless of size) who provided this information by the beginning of April 2009.

This information is collected annually under the "Universities and Colleges Academic Staff System."

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 3101.

The report "Salaries and salary scales of full-time teaching staff at Canadian universities, 2008/2009: Preliminary report" is now available as part of the Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics: Research Papers (81-595-M2009076, free) series from the Publications module of our website.

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-800-307-3382; 613-951-7608; fax: 613-951-4441; educationstats@statcan.gc.ca), Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics.