The annual AAMC Report on the Compensation of Medical School Deans presents dean compensation by medical school characteristics and by deans' gender and deans' race/ethnicity. Deans at participating medical schools receive complimentary access to the full report, which includes the compensation data of medical school deans by dean responsibilities and additional characteristics.
The 2025-2026 Report on the Compensation of Medical School Deans — Public Report can be accessed by clicking on “Download Report” below. This public report includes report tables 1, 1a, and 1b, which show compensation data for deans at all medical schools, deans at all medical schools by gender, and deans at all medical schools by race/ethnicity.
The full report is available for participating deans to download on the Medical School Profile System’s “Compensation” tab at https://systems.aamc.org/mspsreports/.
When interpreting the Report on the Compensation of Medical School Deans data, please consider the following:
- The report data include permanent deans as well as interim deans. If an individual is a dean at more than one medical school, the survey response for the individual’s permanent dean appointment will be included in the analysis.
- 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 usable compensation data. For example, total compensation data reported represent only those individuals for whom salary and employer retirement contribution were reported.
Please contact dcs@aamc.org with questions about this report.
Download the 2025-2026 Report on the Compensation of Medical School Deans — Public Report (PDF) below.
Related Resources
In November 2022, the AAMC released the Exploring Salary Equity Among Medical School Leadership report. The report provides a monograph analyzing data from various AAMC sources including the Survey on the Compensation of the Dean’s Office Staff and Survey on the Compensation of Medical School Deans to the public to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic medicine. For more information, please visit Advancing Compensation Equity as a Strategic Workforce Solution.