CU System — Salary by Department

COL-adjusted annual base salary · FY 2025–26 · 100% FTE only · departments with ≥ 5 FTE system-wide

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Each point is one employment record, positioned by annual base salary adjusted for local cost of living (COL-adjusted per campus before pooling). Departments are sorted by median salary, highest first. Departments with fewer than 5 full-time employees across all CU campuses are excluded. Box shows IQR; whiskers extend to 1.5×IQR fence; center line is median. Scroll horizontally to see all departments. Same-named departments at different campuses are pooled into a single column. Data source: CU Salary Database.