Professor Salary (United States)

United States full professors typically earn around 110,000 to 140,000 dollars at doctoral universities, while adjunct instructors may earn 3,000 to 5,000 dollars per course.

Overview

The tenure-track market is two professions wearing one title. Full professors at research universities, especially in law, business and medicine, commonly earn 150,000 to 250,000, and grant-funded summer salary adds more. Meanwhile the majority of teaching is now done by contingent faculty paid per course without benefits, an arrangement with no job security and poverty-level annualized income at many institutions. Nine-month salaries, sabbaticals and pensions partially offset. These indicative figures come from education association surveys and federal data.