Wichita State and its peers
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What it shows
- Wichita State’s teaching line fell; the five other universities’ rose, FY24–FY27.
- Average FY27 faculty salary by rank: Wichita State against Nebraska–Omaha.
- The same tenure-track faculty, FY21–FY27: Wichita State against the Nebraska campuses.
- Senior administration vs Nebraska (FY21 20 → FY27 37, +85%; Total pay $3.3M → $8.3M (+$5.0M), FY21–FY27).
How to use this page
- Each comparison uses the same rules for both universities; the notes under each chart say how.
- For the Kansas universities see KBOR stats; for national peer groups see the IPEDS page.
- Type a question in Ask the data for an answer in words, with the source.
Ask about a salary, a department or college average, a budget line, a trend, or a comparison between universities. Answers come only from the source documents, with a table or chart when the numbers call for one — or click a suggested follow-up.
Wichita State’s teaching line fell; the five other universities’ rose, FY24–FY27
Budgeted dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Each school’s own teaching line; the bases differ, so compare direction, not size.
Each school’s teaching line, budgeted dollars, FY24–FY27
Click any university above for a detailed, category-by-category comparison with WSU.
Each school’s own core budget line for teaching, read from its own documents. Since FY24 WSU’s Instruction line (all funds) has fallen 2.5% to $96.6M and lost 3.0 points of budget share, while Kansas State’s Education & General Instruction is up 18.2% to $255.2M (to FY26; no FY27 card yet), the University of Oklahoma’s budgeted Education & General faculty salaries (no fringe benefits; including faculty who do not teach) up 13.0% to $229.6M, Nebraska–Omaha’s and Nebraska–Lincoln’s all-funds Instruction up 7.4% to $146.0M and 8.1% to $330.7M, and Colorado State’s state-appropriated (Education & General only) Instruction up 7.3% to $342.0M. These are universities in the region, not WSU’s official peer list.
Average FY27 faculty salary by rank: Wichita State against Nebraska–Omaha
Budgeted FY27 salary by rank at Wichita State (lines above 0.5 FTE, per 1.0 FTE) and the University of Nebraska at Omaha; chairs included at their rank, deans left out on both sides. Pick a field for a like-for-like comparison.
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† fewer than 10 people. The Nebraska file has no FTE field (part-time appointments count at the salary shown) and is total salary including stipends. Omaha has no engineering college, so engineering is not compared here.
Which departments are counted?
Wichita State’s Barton School against Nebraska–Omaha in detail →
The same tenure-track faculty, FY21–FY27: Wichita State against the Nebraska campuses
The same faculty at each university: in the data every comparison year, same track throughout, never a chair or dean, so composition cannot move the lines. Wichita State is budgeted salary per 1.0 FTE; Nebraska is base rank salary, so stipends never count as raises. Every year FY21 to FY27 is required and Kansas, with only FY2026–27, cannot be followed. “Same rank only” removes everyone promoted in the window (tenure-track only).
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† fewer than 10 people. “In the data FY21” is each university's starting group; the gap to “same people every year” is turnover and role changes. “Per year” is the compound annual rate. A person's field is their FY21 college (Wichita State) or department (Nebraska), the same lists as above; UNO has no engineering faculty in the data.
Senior administration over time: Wichita State against the Nebraska campuses
How many people each university budgets in each group — senior administration (president or chancellor, provost, their vice, associate and assistant versions, general counsel and chief officers; no deans, directors or support posts), staff paid $100K or more, tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty, and all staff — and what each group costs. One rule on every side. This senior-administration band is narrower than the Employees tab’s, which also counts deans, so the two counts differ by design. Nebraska’s system-wide executives sit in a separate central administration and are not in the campus figures; the dashed line removes Wichita State’s Division of Research; NIAR is not covered by this dashboard. KU publishes no staff data.
How many people
What the group costs in total
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Combined pay = the group’s budgeted salaries that year (headcount and raises both move it); the group is whoever holds such a position that year. Budget lines are summed per person before the $100K test; athletics posts are never senior administration.