Yeah, as a law prof (not a shitty job) I will be making over $100K next year (up from $35K as a philosophy prof in my last academic incarnation (a shitty job, not bc of the pay), though that was 14 years ago), but mi Espouza, a 4th grade teacher, makes $33K.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I doubt it overstates matters by all that much. For
> the education
> jobs that the BLS does report median and mean for,
> the skew isn't all
> that huge
>
<http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#b25-0000>.
>
> And here's another BLS source (they do several
> surveys of employment
> and earnings, and I missed this one on first search
> <http://
> www.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm#earnings>:
>
> > Median annual earnings of all postsecondary
> teachers in May 2004
> > were $51,800. The middle 50 percent earned between
> $36,590 and
> > $72,490. The lowest 10 percent earned less than
> $25,460, and the
> > highest 10 percent earned more than $99,980.
> >
> > Earnings for college faculty vary according to
> rank and type of
> > institution, geographic area, and field. According
> to a 2004-05
> > survey by the American Association of University
> Professors,
> > salaries for full-time faculty averaged $68,505.
> By rank, the
> > average was $91,548 for professors, $65,113 for
> associate
> > professors, $54,571 for assistant professors,
> $39,899 for
> > instructors, and $45,647 for lecturers. Faculty in
> 4-year
> > institutions earn higher salaries, on average,
> than do those in 2-
> > year schools. In 2004-05, faculty salaries
> averaged $79,342 in
> > private independent institutions, $66,851 in
> public institutions,
> > and $61,103 in religiously affiliated private
> colleges and
> > universities. In fields with high-paying
> nonacademic alternatives—
> > medicine, law, engineering, and business, among
> others—earnings
> > exceed these averages. In others fields—such as
> the humanities and
> > education—they are lower.
>
> So yeah, there are some shitty academic jobs, but it
> pays a lot
> better than teaching kindergarten, like my
> sister-in-law, who's
> pretty strapped considering what important work that
> is.
>
> Doug
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