On Mar 27, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote:
> I think that it is not so clear. The BLS tables attempt to gross-up
> salaries
> to full-time hours, e.g.
> <http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes251021.htm>
>
> 2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean
> wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for
> those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published,
> the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported
> survey
> data.
For all the postsecondary teaching occupations, there is no mean hourly wage published - as footnote 4 says, "Hourly wage rates for some occupations where workers typically work fewer than 2,080 hours per year are not available" - so the second part of note 2 applies, i.e., the annual wage has been directly calculated from the survey.
By the way, here are the average salaries from the most recent AAUP survey, as published by the Chronicle of Higher Ed:
professor assoc prof assist prof instructor I (doctoral) 102,962 73,570 62,591 45,539 IIA (masters) 76,782 61,719 51,875 42,062 IIB (bachelors) 69,613 55,989 47,230 40,099 III (2-yr) 63,609 53,030 45,900 39,528 all 77,051 60,505 51,193 41,621
The median annual salary for a U.S. worker, reported in the same BLS table, works out to $29,432/year (median hourly * 2,080 hours, and that's for 12 months, not 9 months, of work); the mean, $37,870. I really think that academics have a hard time arguing that their job places them among the wretched of the earth - and to steal a phrase from Bob Dole on why he wanted to be vice president, it's "indoor work, no heavy lifting."
Doug