OSU Salaries 21-25
Search base pay for 65,186 Ohio State University employees across 202,739 positions, from September 30 snapshots in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Find people by name, then follow the links to their job title and department.
Snapshot year
Pay type
- Positions
- 47,474
- People
- 45,212
- Median pay
- $65,614
- Highest pay
- $3,144,848
- Combined base pay
- $3.68B
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Top-paid rankings
See who and what sits at the top: top-paid people, top-paid departments and top-paid job titles, for every year from 2021 to 2025.
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Every person, department and job title has its own page: people A–Z, 2,667 departments and 5,020 job titles. New here? Read how the data works.
Largest departments in 2025
- Administration and Planning | DPS Special Duty
- Business Advancement | Schottenstein Center Hourly Labor
- Medicine | Pediatrics
- Athletics | General
- Medicine | Psychiatry
- Business Advancement | Schottenstein Center Guest Services Administration
- Medicine | Pathology
- CCC | Clinical Trials Office
- University Hospital | Environmental Services
- Medicine | Anesthesiology
- Student Life | Dining Services
- Medicine | Emergency Medicine
- CCC | Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University Hospital | Pharmacy
Most common job titles in 2025
- Staff Nurse-B (HS)
- Assistant Professor - Clinical
- Physician
- Event Services Associate 1
- Law Enforcement Associate 2
- Clinical Inst HS
- Custodial Worker 2
- Professor (9M)
- Patient Care Associate - IAM
- Associate Professor - Clinical
- Advanced Practice Provider 3
- Lecturer (SEM)
- Associate Professor (9M)
- Post Doctoral Scholar