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Salary packages for deans and senior deputy deans australian medical schools
Hello, and thanks for your question about the salary packages for deans and senior deputy deans Australian medical schools. I have been able to estimate that professionals in these positions should expect to make somewhere in the region of AUD$300,000 to $500,000. Below you will find a deep dive into my research, along with all the details as to how I came to this conclusion.
OVERVIEW
I have reviewed the answer that the previous researcher provided you with and have sought to find more accurate details. I can see that in fact not all of the salaries related to the level that you were searching for, some were for associate dean positions, which I should expect to be lower.
I conducted a thorough search for salaries for deans and senior deputy deans at Australian medical schools. I can conclude that of the positions that I found that met this criteria (of which there were very few), none publicly listed a salary (for example, this one advertised by the University of New South Wales). In addition to this, upon searching for salary scales of the universities that you mentioned, I found none of these stated salaries for positions of dean or senior deputy dean. Lastly, after looking through numerous articles I found no solid evidence anywhere that claims to know the average salary of a dean and senior deputy dean in an Australian medical school. Perhaps the lack of information here is because these jobs are rarer and often headhunted for.
For this reason, as well as providing you with some general information on dean salary, I have sought to make an estimation as to what a salary of a dean and senior deputy dean in an Australian medical school may be. I have used the estimation that you have provided, that this salary may be 30-50% of a Vice Chancellor's salary. Therefore I have sought information on these salaries and have made a calculation, as you will see below.
DEAN SALARY
The average annual salary of a dean (in general, not specific to medicine) AUD$116,716 in Australia, which equates to AUD$60 per hour. This salary is about twice the average median wage of the country. As you have suggested, this figure seems too low. Given that researchers in Australia will be making around AUD$250,000 annually, it would be expected that deans would make more. Just to give a quick comparison, in the US a dean of medicine would expect to make around USD$316,700 a year (AUD$418,251). While salaries in the US can not be used to estimate average salaries in Australia this figure supports the suspicion that a $116,716 annual salary may be too low for a dean of medicine.
CALCULATION
Vice-chancellors in Australia are experiencing increases in salary. The most highly paid vice-chancellors in the country are currently all making over AUD$1 million. I found two more articles (here and here) that confirm that vice-chancellor salaries in the country are rapidly approached the AUD$1 million mark, and surpassing it. You estimated that the salary of a dean may be around 30-50% of a Vice Chancellor's salary. 30-50% of AUD$1 million equates to AUD$300,000-$500,000. This figure fits in better with the salaries that we know medical deans make in the US, and is suitably higher than the salaries of associate deans.
CONCLUSION
Overall I can sum up that while there are no published figures regarding salary packages for deans and senior deputy deans australian medical schools, it can be estimated that it sits between AUD$300,000-$500,000.
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