2024 Salary Survey

The AUTM Salary Survey is the industry’s best tool for everything from tracking compensation trends to mapping careers in technology transfer. These metrics are invaluable for TTOs looking to staff up and tech transfer professionals in search of new career opportunities. 
  
Whether you run the office, license technologies, direct startups or hire the people who fill those roles, you’ll discover the key metrics and other variables driving compensation in tech transfer. 
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Key Findings from the 2024 Salary Survey 

The AUTM 2024 Salary Survey gathered data from 100 research institutions on 10 of the most common tech transfer positions. The resulting database includes salary statistics as well as institutional characteristics (region, office size, remote work options, incentive compensation) and individual characteristics (educational degree, gender, experience, number of direct reports). 

The key findings of the 2024 Survey include: 

  • Of the 848 tech transfer professionals for whom data about gender was provided, 52.6% were female. However, men were more likely than women to hold leadership positions (67.7% of directors and 55.7% of assistant or associate directors were male).  

  • Leadership positions rose for female positions by 5% from 2022 data.  
  • For seven of the 10 positions analyzed, median salaries were 3% to 15% higher for men than for women. The median salary for the in-house counsel position was 5% higher for women than for men, and the salaries for assistant/associate directors and administrative assistance did not differ significantly between genders. 
  • The tech transfer profession has experienced significant job turnover in the last several years: Of the 848 people employed as tech transfer professionals at the time of the survey, 56% (480 people) had been in their current positions for three years or fewer. That level of experience included 73% of marketing managers and 78% of licensing assistants but 40% of directors and in-house counsel positions. 
  • Of the 100 institutions surveyed, 73 permit hybrid working and 46 permit their employees to be primarily remote (64 offer both options). At institutions where hybrid work is permitted, on average, 72% of the office staff choose this option. At institutions where primarily remote work is permitted, however, the staff opt-in rate for that arrangement is much lower—an average of 20%. 
  • Of the 100 institutions surveyed, 44% said they consider whether a candidate has a CLP (Certified Licensing Professional) or RTTP (Registered Technology Transfer Professional) designation when hiring. 

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The 2024 Salary Survey features exciting upgrades to the way survey data is reported. Salary Survey now offers historical data from the FY2022 survey for reference. For each position there's a new field asking how the position is funded. A new supplementary question asks survey takers if there are other positions that should be included. 
 
In light of these upgrades, Survey pricing has been adjusted. 
 

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