Pay scale of faculty in different fields. Please see this

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  1. kelechi

    kelechi New Member

  2. Dave Wagner

    Dave Wagner Active Member

    There is something strange about these numbers. New assistant professors in engineering make substantially less than those in business or legal? Engineering instructors are scarcer than hen's teeth and you can't swing a cat without hitting an attorney who doesn't want to practice law. Go figure.

    Dave
     
  3. Andy Borchers

    Andy Borchers New Member

    Averages are just that - averages. There is wide variation, for example, within a field like management based on a host of factors - institutional stature, sub-field, teaching versus research, region of the country etc.

    As for business - their $80k at the assistant level is fine for some fields - such as information systems, but low for accounting.

    Regards - Andy
     
  4. foobar

    foobar Member

    Re: Re: Pay scale of faculty in different fields. Please see this

    Supply and demand. There are far more business schools than engineering schools and the business enrollments tend to be larger than engineering enrolments.

    The salaries shown for business aren't close for new accounting faculty.
     
  5. Dave Wagner

    Dave Wagner Active Member

    Re: Re: Re: Pay scale of faculty in different fields. Please see this

    Perhaps, but a median value was reported.

    Dave
     
  6. edowave

    edowave Active Member

    Looks very similar compared to what UF pays business and engineering faculty.

    I didn't see on the survey if this was for a 9-month or 12-month appointment.
     
  7. Michael Lloyd

    Michael Lloyd New Member

    I note the very low average salaries for nursing faculty. This is one of the reasons we have a nursing shortage in the USA. Nurses with graduate degrees can make far more in the hospital than in academia. In ten years, as the existing nursing pool ages out towards retirement, the shortage will become worse, and we don't have enough open slots in the nursing schools to train a sufficient number of replacements.
     
  8. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Re: Re: Pay scale of faculty in different fields. Please see this

    Even if you statements were correct (at any rate, they are not very quantitatively precise), you have only addressed the supply side; in order to figure price, you need both supply and demand.
     
  9. Dave Wagner

    Dave Wagner Active Member

    Re: Re: Re: Pay scale of faculty in different fields. Please see this

    True, but are you also implying that dear old Grandma was not quantitatively precise in her usage of colloquial expressions to describe changes in supply around the farm? ;-)

    Dave
     
  10. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Pay scale of faculty in different fields. Please see this

    I only met one of my two Grandmas and the one I met was the wife of an engineering salesman and so she did not discuss changes in supply around the farm; the other Grandma was a farmwife, but since she dropped dead when I was only two, I am not in a position to attest to her quantitative precision or colloquialisms (or lack of either of the above) in expressing changes in supply around the farm.
     
  11. Dave Wagner

    Dave Wagner Active Member

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pay scale of faculty in different fields. Please see this

    Sorry to hear that, Ted.

    Dave
     

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