The annual AAMC Report on the Compensation of the Dean’s Office Staff provides compensation and responsibilities statistics for medical school chief officers in ten administrative areas at the senior associate/vice dean, associate dean, and assistant dean levels.
An Excel-based report containing aggregate data on compensation and responsibilities by gender, race/ethnicity, and other individual and institutional demographics is released to the public each year and can be accessed below.
In addition, deans and Principal Business Officers at participating medical schools receive complimentary access to the full report, which includes a separate analytic Excel file containing the aggregated compensation and responsibility data in a flat format. Participating deans and Principal Business Officers may download the full report on the Institution Profile System (IPS) at https://mda.aamc.org/mda-ips/.
When interpreting the Report on the Compensation of the Dean’s Office Staff data, please consider the following:
- Because the survey collects compensation data for senior-most leaders across administrative areas, the report’s analysis cannot provide a full accounting of dean’s office leadership structures across medical schools. For example, there may have been additional assistant or associate dean positions under the senior-most leader.
- The survey’s ten administrative categories may not reflect the full composition of senior leadership roles at each U.S. medical school. For example, some medical schools may have joint positions that cover two administrative areas, such as Student Affairs and Diversity Affairs. In cases where there are such joint positions, the survey instructions asked participants to report data for their area of primary responsibility.
- Although the AAMC has added administrative areas to the survey over the years, schools may have senior leaders in other positions not included in the survey.
- In some cases, data cannot be reported by multiple demographics across administrative areas due to small sample sizes.
- The report data do not account for how long a person may have held a role (i.e., time in position) and its potential impact on compensation.
- The analysis only includes what is considered to be usable compensation data, which means the data have to include all components of compensation and time dedicated to the dean’s office.
Download the 2025-2026 AAMC Report on the Compensation of the Dean’s Office Staff — Public Report (Microsoft Excel macro-enabled workbook) below.
For the interactive tables to function properly on PCs and Macs, please ensure that macros are enabled. On a PC, within the workbook, you can enable macros by clicking the “Enable Content” button that appears in the yellow message bar at the top of the file upon opening the file in Excel. Another way to enable macros is by updating the Trust Center Settings in Excel. On a Mac, when prompted to enable macros, please click on the “Enable Macros” button. If you have questions about using the workbook, please let us know. If it is not clear how to enable macros on your machine, please contact your institution's IT department for assistance.
Contact dos@aamc.org with questions about the Report on the Compensation of the Dean’s Office Staff.