Women administrators' salaries continue to rise.

More and more women are filling top administrative positions and their salaries sometimes surpass those of men peers, especially as academic deans in recent years.

Median campus administrative salaries increased by 4% since the last fiscal year, outpacing inflation for the 11th year in a row, according to data from September 2007 to January 2008 reported by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR).

It conducts an annual survey comparing salaries of women and men senior administrators, this year including 73,575 of them in 272 jobs at 1,307 colleges and universities. Of the 102 positions WIHE chose as being most popular with women, data showed women earned more than men in 23 of them, compared with 21 last year.

Women administrators appeared to be more likely to choose fields such as human resources, public relations, nursing, education, admissions, budgeting/accounting and student affairs.

Women were directors of student health services at 375 schools, compared to 13 where men held the job. But women's median salary was $9,300 less than men's, although the women averaged five years longer in the position.

At $399,290, women deans of medicine earned the top reported median salary.

Last year women deans of cooperative extension earned $132,829, which was $13,168 less than men. This year, the six women deans of cooperative extension reported a median salary of $174,043, which is $19,586 more than the male deans.