Sixth Logistics Faculty Salary Survey

Abstract

As Supply Chain Management has evolved, doctoral programs have struggled to produce enough new people with doctorate degrees to keep up with demand and to replace tenure-track faculty who leave for various reasons. Accurate salary data is required by both potential candidates and recruiting institutions. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International conducts an annual survey of faculty and administrative salaries for member schools. Each school self-reports salary figures. This reporting is subjective to how each reporting university defines faculty residency. Many reported salaries for Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) are co-mingled with “Management,” “Marketing,” or “Operations” faculty and are not included under the correct classification. To address the limitations of the AACSB salary report, the authors developed a survey to collect data on SCM/Logistics and Transportation. Faculty salaries focused on the US-based faculty for public, private, AACSB-accredited and non–AACSB-accredited institutions. This article examines the impact of factors such as faculty rank, primary field of practice, years in the present rank, work allocation, and accreditation on academic salaries in the fields of SCM/Logistics and Transportation. This information is of immense use for both career and hiring decisions.

Supply chain management research productivity and topics: 2020–2022

“…These points suggest insufficient expansion and growth of supply chain doctoral programs despite calls from both industry and schools to do just that. “As Supply Chain Management has evolved, doctoral programs have struggled to produce enough new people with doctorate degrees to keep up with demand and to replace tenure‐track faculty who leave” (Gabaldon et al, 2021, p. 239). Beyond filling the need for more supply chain faculty, doctoral programs offer the additional benefit of increased overall research productivity for the school itself (Xu et al, 2014).…”

The 2022 who went where in supply chain management

“…As our sample size increases in future surveys, we hope to add this level of detail beyond the summary offered in Table 12. We encourage the reader to access the 2021 “Sixth Logistics Faculty Salary Survey” in “Transportation Journal” (Gabaldon et al, 2021, pp 246–248) for their analysis of salary differences for these factors.…”

“…In addition, there are over 850 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited schools with Marketing departments but far less specific to SCM as many of the programs are blended into other departments such as Management or Marketing (Gabaldon et al, 2021). For these reasons, the inaugural survey, it was not a surprise that we had a low response rate despite an overwhelmingly favorable support from many of our colleagues at other universities.…”