Salaries for midlevel administrators rose by a median of 2 percent this year over last year, matching the median pay increase for senior administrators and coming in slightly higher than the 1.9-percent median increase for faculty members, says an annual report released by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Midlevel administrators--who include auditors, curators, police officers, coaches, and other staff--received a bigger pay increase from the 2011 to the 2012 fiscal years than they did in the previous year, when the median salary increase was 1.3 percent. Still, pay increases for midlevel administrators lagged behind inflation, which rose 3.2 percent from 2010 to 2011. As with other types of positions, private colleges gave midlevel administrators better raises on average than public ones did, according to the report, which reflects data for 489 public and 595 private institutions. For those employees, private institutions provided salary increases of 2.2 percent, compared with 1.4 percent at public colleges.