Peninsula College: Faculty & Salaries

Overall Rating:Overall Ranking - Below AverageQuality:Education Quality Rating - PoorSafety:Capmus Safety Rating - PoorCosts:Tuition & Fees Cost Rating - Oustanding

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Average
Faculty Salary
$86,000
Bad
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.

In this report for Peninsula College we provide you with information about faculty structure, salaries, and class sizes, as well as comparisons to competing and nearby colleges.

Faculty Compensation and Workload

Full-time
Faculty
43
As a rule, adequately compensated instructors are better motivated and have more opportunities to concentrate on teaching; therefore, we consider faculty compensation to be an important factor for evaluating education quality.

Monthly faculty salaries at Peninsula College vary approximately from $7,000 to $8,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $86,000 a year - that is 30% lower than Washington average faculty compensation.

Women faculty members at the college are paid $7,062 a month on average; that is about the same as average men faculty salaries, $7,199 a month.

Faculty Rank
School Average
WA Average
Difference

Unranked Teacher
$85,560
$101,281
-16%

Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Peninsula College Faculty Compensation and Workload Chart
Students to
Faculty Ratio
14 : 1
Low
Peninsula College has a pretty decent, 14:1 students-to-faculty ratio.

Low ratios usually imply smaller class size, more attention to students, better quality of education, and higher satisfaction both for students and instructors. High ratios are usually a sign of the opposite.

Use the charts above to compare faculty compensation and workload at Peninsula College versus nearby colleges.

Faculty Ranking and Demographics

The full-time faculty at Peninsula College consists of 43 unranked teachers - 21 men and 22 women:
Peninsula College Faculty Demographics Chart

Please note that faculty rank (e.g. associate professor, lecturer, instructor) is typically assigned by the college itself.

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