DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice, Second Edition

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salaries versus DNP- only salaries were not analyzed, it is likely that PhD salaries are
higher if a higher salary is associated with higher rank and total years of teaching and
doctoral teaching experience.
Table 11.2 presents the distribution of annual salaries for faculty that are chairs of PhD
and DNP programs and administrators. As seen in the table, in the current data, among
those in academic nursing administration excluding chairs of DNP or PhD programs, a
higher percentage made more than $105,000 annually ( N = 102, 62%). In contrast, 53% of
PhD chairs reported making more than $105,000 annually while only 37% of DNP chairs
made more than $105,000 annually. The salary distributions in the current data show
that in general, compensation for PhD and DNP chairs and administrators have gone up
slightly from 2012 where the percent of administrators more than $105,000 annually were
54% (administrators, not DNP or PhD chairs), 42% (PhD chairs), and 32% (DNP chairs).
“How confident are you in the leadership of the administrator of the doctoral pro-
gram you teach in?” Most respondents chose “mostly confident” as their choice ( N = 392,
63%) in 2012. In the current survey, more than half ( N = 435, 57%) indicated “mostly
confident.” Again, similar to 2012 when one out of 10 responses expressed “lack of confi-
dence” in their doctoral program administrator ( N = 59, 10%), in the current survey that
number crept marginally higher ( N = 104, 14%). We were also curious to learn whether
aspirations of the faculty for becoming a chair/ director of a doctoral nursing program
had changed since the 2012 survey. To the question of whether they agreed with the
statement “I am not an academic nursing administrator but I have aspirations to become
a director/ chair of a doctoral nursing program,” findings from the current survey were
quite different from 2012. In 2012, the most frequent response was “No” ( N = 275, 49%),
followed by “does not apply, I am already in that position” ( N = 173, 31%). Only, one fifth
of the respondents said “Yes” ( N = 52, 9%) to have aspiration to become a director/ chair
of a doctoral nursing program at that time. In the current survey however, close to half of
the respondents ( N = 330, 43%) said “yes” to having such aspirations.

4.7%

21.8%

18.4%

13.5%13.7%

10.8%

6.1% 5.3%

1.5% 1.7% 1.5% 0.9%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

Response (%)

Prefer not to answerLess than $75,000

$75,000–$84,999$85,000–$94,999$95,000–$104,999

$105,000–$114,999$115,000–$124,999$125,000–$134,999$135,000–$144,999$145,000–$154,999$155,000–$199,999$200,000 and greater

FIGURE 11.8 Salary distributions of respondents who are doctoral teaching faculty (non-
administrators; N  = 527).