This is the fifth table from the so-called “Cartel” summary report from December 1965 of 9-10 month salaries paid in U.S. economics departments. Table 5c give figures for the anticipated range of salaries for “freshly completed PhD’s” for the coming academic year (1966-67) across the departments reporting. Earlier postings gave the distribution for full-professors, the distribution for associate professors, and the distribution for assistant professors. The previous posting has the actual distributions for entering salaries for new Ph.D.’s for 1964-65 and 1965-66. Refer to the first posting in this series of tables for information about the compiler Professor Francis Boddy of the University of Minnesota and a list of the 30 departments belonging to the Chairmen’s Group.
The copy of this table in the Johns Hopkins University archives has a useful handwritten addition. It is noted that the median lower bound of the range is $9,250 and the median higher bound of the range is $10,000. Thus one might say a measure of the range of the anticipated, as of December 1965), 9-10 month salary offers for “freshly completed PhDs” for 1966-67 was ($9,250 — $10,000), though such a range was not necessarily anticipated by any one of the 27 departments responding to that question.
Compared to Table 4c, this table tells us that the range of offers for “freshly completed PhDs” was anticipated to move up $250 about a 2.67% nominal increase from 1965-66 to 1966-67.
Using the BLS web CPI Inflation calculator, one can inflate nominal levels (say for December 1965, the date of the report) to April 2017 using a factor of 7.69.
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TABLE 5c
Departments Expect to Have to Offer to Get
“Freshly Completed PhD’s for Next Year, 1966-67
|
MID-POINT OF RANGE |
FROM | TO |
| 13,000 | 0 |
0 |
|
12,500 |
0 | 0 |
| 12,000 | 0 |
1 |
|
11,500 |
0 | 0 |
| 11,000 | 0 |
6 |
|
10,500 |
0 | 7 |
| 10,000 | 5 |
6 |
|
9,750 |
0 | 0 |
| 9,500 | 8 |
4 |
|
9,250 |
1 | 0 |
| 9,000 | 8 |
2 |
|
8,750 |
1 | 0 |
| 8,500 | 1 |
1 |
|
8,250 |
0 | 0 |
| 8,000 | 3 |
0 |
|
N= |
27 |
27 |
Source: Johns Hopkins University. The Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Archives. Department of Political Economy, Series 5, Box 6, Folder 2 “Statistical Information”.
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