Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Assistant Professor: $93K median posted pay.
From 34 salary bands employers posted on 218 open assistant professor roles in academia & natural science. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 218 | $93K | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio State University | 26 | — |
| Osu | 26 | — |
| Tamus (System Wide External) | 21 | — |
| University of Nevada Reno | 16 | — |
| Nshe | 16 | — |
| University of South Florida | 15 | — |
| Louisiana State University | 14 | — |
| Umd | 11 | — |
| Tamucc | 8 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open assistant professor roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Investigation | 101 | — |
| Community Outreach | 59 | — |
| Classroom Teaching | 36 | — |
| Geology | 33 | — |
| Curriculum Development | 25 | — |
| Statistics | 18 | — |
| Behavioral Health Support | 17 | — |
| Machine Learning | 15 | — |
| Hydrology | 14 | — |
| Payroll Processing | 14 | — |
Where the work is
1% of these roles are remote.
- Remote1%3 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site61%132 roles
- Not stated38%83 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 218 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 34 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Assistant Professor (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in academia & natural science, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.