What each institution charges undergraduates (in-state sticker tuition) against what it pays its teaching faculty, FY2016–FY2025. The ratio below — a faculty median salary expressed in years of in-state tuition — shows whether pay and price moved together.
Faculty median salary ÷ annual in-state tuition
Higher = a faculty salary buys more years of tuition (pay outpaced price). Rising lines mean faculty pay grew faster than tuition; note most institutions cut sticker tuition around FY2023.
Faculty median salary in years of in-state tuition
Tuition figures are published annual in-state undergraduate sticker tuition (excluding mandatory fees), academic years 2015-16 through 2024-25 (Georgia FY = fall academic year + 1), from collegetuitioncompare.com (IPEDS / USG Board of Regents schedules). Faculty median is the teaching-faculty median salary from the cross-institution comparison. FY2015 tuition is unavailable, so this view starts at FY2016.