Salary Survey of Technology Transfer Personnel

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TechPipeline, the world’s leading publication for TTOs, has published its first-ever salary survey of technology transfer personnel, covering the full range of positions from executive director to marketing associate and everything in between.

Designed to fill a void in current salary benchmarks for TTOs, the survey – based on responses from nearly 200 university TTOs and featuring more than 300 charts and figures – breaks down and presents salary data by key titles, region, staff size, research expenditures, and population density using dozens of easy-to-scan charts showing high, low, median, and average salaries for these job titles:

• Executive Director/VP
• Associate Director
• Director of Licensing
• Licensing Associate
• Licensing Associate
• Director/Manager of New Ventures
• Director/Manager of IP
• Director of Contracting
• Director of Operations
• Director of Finance
• Marketing Director/Manager
• Marketing Associate

This is data no tech transfer office should be without. Compare your staff’s salaries with other organizations in the same region, of similar size, with similar research budgets.

Current data and apples-to-apples comparisons

The data in the all-new Salary Survey of Technology Transfer Personnel is fresh, collected in the last quarter of 2022. It’s also presented in numerous breakdowns, along with more aggregated data, so you can compare your office to similarly situated organizations. The data is parsed into these categories:

• By geographic region of the world (U.S., Europe, Canada, and Other)
• By U.S. region for U.S. survey responses
• By population density (urban, suburban, rural)
• By level of research expenditures
• By TTO staff size

In addition, the survey includes data on the prevalence of incentive bonuses for TTO staff, the percentages of salary offered in bonuses, and the criteria used to determine bonus eligibility.