DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice, Second Edition

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the current 2016 study the percent of faculty earning greater than $105,000 has dropped
from 28% to 17% and the percent earning in the range $85,000 to $105,000 has dropped
from 29% to 27%. Analyzing these changing salary ranges, it is difficult to discern just
where the actual salary ranges have migrated except perhaps those oblique changes
that are accounted for in the small percent who chose not to answer this question (down
to 5% from the previous 9% in the 2012 study). Figure 11.8 identified the mode salary
in 2016 as less than $75,000 (21.8%), followed by that in the range $75,000 to $84,999 at
18.4% and the third highest range being $95,000 to $104,999. Although PhD- only faculty

40% (212)

27% (143) 28% (147)

5% (25)

45% (145)

29% (90)

17% (53)

9% (29)

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

< $85,000 $85,000–$105,000 > $105,000 Prefer not to answer

Responses (%)

Current sample (N = 527) 2012 Study (N = 317)

FIGURE 11.7 Salary distributions of respondents who are doctoral teaching faculty only (non-
administrators) in the current study compared to the 2012 published study. Chi- square analysis
showed statistically signifi cant difference ( p  = .001) between the salary distributions between the
two studies.

TABLE 11.2 Salary Comparison Among PhD Chairs, DNP Chairs, Chairs of Both Programs,
and Other Administrators (Excludes Teaching- Only Faculty; N = 332) a

Variable

(Annual

Salary)

Chairs of PhD

Programs

( N = 51)

Chairs of DNP

Programs

( N = 110)

Chairs of Both

Programs ( N = 6)

Other Academic

Nursing

Administrator

( N = 165)

Frequency (%) Frequency (%) Frequency (%) Frequency (%)

Less than

$85,000

6 (12) 38 (35) 3 (50) 17 (10)

$85,000–

$105,000

16 (31) 25 (23) 2 (33) 32 (19)

More than

$105,000

27 (53) 41 (37) 1 (17) 102 (62)

Prefer not to

answer

2 (4) 6 (5) 0 (0) 14 (9)

DNP, Doctor of Nursing Practice.

a Salary data were reported for available responses only, p < .001.