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This volume presents data from the 14th annual survey of faculty salaries by discipline and rank in the nation's private colleges and universities. Three hundred and thirty-one institutions participated in the survey. Data are presented by 55 disciplines and major fields and for institutions with and without collective bargaining. A final table presents discipline averages in all major fields. The overall average salary for all ranks was $47,6609, an increase of 2.56 percent over the previous year. Average salaries for all full professors, comprising 33.4 percent of faculty, was $60,908; for associate professors, comprising 31.3 percent of faculty, was $45,771; for assistant professors, comprising 30.3 percent of faculty, was $37,820; and for instructors, comprising 6.6 percent of faculty, was $30,222. The top five disciplines/major fields for faculty salary were: engineering ($65,244); business management and administrative services/marketing ($58,347); social sciences and history/economics ($57,446); physical sciences ($57,320); and health professions and related sciences ($57,091). The disciplines with the highest percentages of faculty at the professor rank were physical sciences (56.9 percent), geology (51.3 percent); physics (50.2 percent); chemistry (45.7 percent); and social sciences and history (45.4 percent). Appendices list participating institutions and describe a data product service that provides special sets of data to institutions for salary comparison analysis. (JLS)