Where Do Professors Get Paid?
Full College Professors in the U. S. Made an Average of $140,543 in 2020-21. Senior-Level Professors at Private Institutions Boast the Highest Annual Earnings...
Full college professors in the U.S. made an average of $140,543 in 2020-21. Senior-level professors at private institutions boast the highest annual earnings. Adjunct and other non-tenured faculty earn considerably less per year. Despite rising student costs and executive compensation, professors' pay remains stagnant.
How are professors paid?
Most of the full-time tenured or tenure-track professors are paid by a college or university on nine- or ten-month contracts. Salary data for professors is typically reported as a nine-month salary, not including compensation received (often from research grants) during the summer.
Where do university professors get paid the most?
As you might expect, the highest-paid professors teach mostly at prestigious private universities: Columbia, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, and Duke. Two teach at public universities: University of California–Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin.
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