Data are presented on salaries, tenure, and fringe benefits of full-time instructional faculty at Pennsylvania colleges and universities for the 1981-1982 school year, and brief narrative descriptions of trends are included. Findings for the different sectors include the following: the mean salaries of full-time instructional faculty for selected ranks and selected institutions increased 84.9 percent from 1972-1973 to 1981-1982; for the public sector, the mean salaries rose by 87.8 percent over the period; although the private sector salaries increased at a slower rate (81.5 percent), the 1981-1982 mean salary represented an increase of 13.2 percent over 1980-1981; in 1972-1973, women comprised 19.9 percent of the full-time instructional faculty on contracts of 9 months; from 1972-1973 to 1981-82 the number of women on 9-month contracts increased by 37.6 percent to where women comprise 24.2 percent of the total; from 1972-1973 to 1981-1982, the mean salaries for men increased by 87.3 percent to $26,877, while the mean salaries for women increased to $21,426 (up 81.2 percent); in 1975-1976, 51.9 percent of the expenditures for fringe benefits for full-time instructional faculty employed on a contract of 9 months were for retirement plans; by 1981-1982, retirement plans accounted for only 39.5 percent of these expenditures; over the 1975-1976 period, medical/dental and all other benefits accounted for an increasingly larger portion of total fringe benefits expenditures; for the 7-year period ending in 1981-1982, expenditures for fringe benefits increased by 1.5 times. (SW)