[lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment)

[Miles Jackson]

John Adams wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
>>     
>>> No job security, no benefits, typically 1/3 the pay of tenured faculty
>>> teaching the same course.  (Can you tell I still have a bitter
>>> taste in
>>> my mouth from my years as an adjunct faculty member?)
>>>       
>> According to the BLS, the average postsecondary teacher makes $1,072
>> a week, twice as much as a pre-K and K teacher, and 22% more than a
>> high-school teacher.
>>     
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> By average, I expect you mean the mean. What's the median?
>
> 	John A
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>   
Nicely caught, John!  We've got relatively few academic superstars at 
the private universities in the six digits, and we've got a multitude of 
adjunct faculty making $27,000 per year (annualized load).  The mean is 
a pointless statistic here.

Miles