Thread: Online Adjunct Pay

I am inerested to know what the pay is for adjuncts at places like Phoenix, AIU , Capella , Colorado Technical University , UMUC, Strayer , etc. Anyone here have direct knowledge or experience with pay from online schools or programs?

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UoP :

$850 for 5-week undergraduate courses. Graduate courses are 6 weeks and proportionately higher. Rates go up for doctorate holders. After teaching 5 courses, faculty are eligible to have their pay bumped up $100 a course (or so). After three years, it bumps again.

This is generally correct. The rates just went up, so I don't know them exactly anymore. I believe the online campus pays doctorate-holders more for U/G courses; they do for graduate courses. (Some campuses did for U/G courses, others didn't. Perhaps they all do now.)

AMU pays per student, but I don't know the rates.

Hope this helps.

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I believe Keiser College, which has only 4 week courses in undergraduate programs, pays $1,500 to instructors with a Master's and $1,800 to instructors with a doctorate.

-=Steve=-

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Originally posted by SteveFoerster
I believe Keiser College, which has only 4 week courses in undergraduate programs, pays $1,500 to instructors with a Master's and $1,800 to instructors with a doctorate.

-=Steve=-

I guess one needs to teach 20 courses a year just to make a living. A good rate of return for a doctorate.

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Originally posted by RFValve


I guess one needs to teach 20 courses a year just to make a living. A good rate of return for a doctorate.

Teaching as an adjunct isn't supposed to be a "living."

My rate of return for the doctorate is staggering, no matter how you calculate it. I make more than 2X what I did before graduating--and that was as a senior trainer with AT&T. I've already made up the cost of the degree, and a Union degree ain't cheap. ;)

Funny, seldom is heard a complaint about such returns from people who've done it.

(We had a thread on this subject, a "Would you return it and get your money back" kind of thing. I don't recall anyone with a doctorate from an accredited school saying they would.)

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Originally posted by SteveFoerster
I believe Keiser College, which has only 4 week courses in undergraduate programs, pays $1,500 to instructors with a Master's and $1,800 to instructors with a doctorate.

-=Steve=-

Interesting - we get paid by the hour. Government College $49 an hour, Professional/Trade License Colleges [Building license, Engineering etc] $75 and hour, University $115 for the 1st hour of a 3 hour block and then $86 an hour for the next 2. For straight marking of DE papers I get $8.50 a paper.

For 'workplace training' as opposed to adjunct Uni work, I get $50 per trainee per 90 minute session and run groups of 4 through to 10 so that is $133 to $333 and hour. No 'status' and no academic challenge, but pays well, nice people, no pretence, no head-in-the-sand bosses.

The weather is nice, Geroge Bush isn't here, there are no degree mills to speak of to dodge, more work than you can handle ... any takers?

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Originally posted by Rich Douglas
Teaching as an adjunct isn't supposed to be a "living."

Moreover, SACS does not allow instructors to teach more than 5 courses per semester. Keiser College has three semesters per year, meaning that an instructor can earn no more than $27,000.

On the other hand, it's not that much work, and if you're an adjunct to eCampus you can be living like a king on a Thai beach with that kind of income.

-=Steve=-

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Originally posted by SteveFoerster


Moreover, SACS does not allow instructors to teach more than 5 courses per semester. Keiser College has three semesters per year, meaning that an instructor can earn no more than $27,000.

Just for clarification, it would be $27k if you have a doctorate and $22.5k with a Masters.

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I believe that AIU pays better than (perhaps, all) other online schools. I have taught for 5 DL schools. UoP 's adjunct pay is by far the least.

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	University of Phoenix University of Phoenix UoP is probably the largest, most popular online school in the US. With the largest selection of degrees, you can easily find the specific program you are interested in. They offer Arts & Religion (Associate's and Bachelor's), Business and MBA (Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's), Computers and Information Technology (Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's), Education and Teaching (Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral), Health and Medicine/Nursing (Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's), Science and Technology (Bachelor's), and Social Sciences/Criminal Justice (Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral). The school is regionally accredited, the most widely recognized accreditation. Click Here to receive FREE information on this school.

At some of the online schools where I work with a masters and 3 credit courses:
15 weeks - 2,600
8 week = 1,600
8 week = 1,600
6 week = 1,500 - 1,770 (extra paper)
6 week = 1,600
8 & 16 week = 130/student

I think this is the same for the online courses. At Devry , I get paid 1800 dollars a course. At Tomball College, it is 1600 per course.

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Originally posted by Tireman44
I think this is the same for the online courses. At Devry, I get paid 1800 dollars a course. At Tomball College, it is 1600 per course.

How many weeks are the courses at Devry ? Does it change if there are 20 as opposed to 10 students?

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Originally posted by Ike
I believe that AIU pays better than (perhaps, all) other online schools. I have taught for 5 DL schools. UoP's adjunct pay is by far the least.

Ike:

I responded to your PM, but your box is full. Clear some posts and mine will arrive, I think.

There are 8 and 16 week courses. The 1800 is the same for both. If it is an 8 week course, you get paid at the end. If it is a 16 week, you get paid twice. I think it is the same for online classes. I teach on campus.

As for me, the number of students does not matter. It takes nine to make, so if I get nine, then my class makes.

I have taught mostly online for community colleges. The pay is extremely different among them.

Virginia Community College - $565/credit hour (15-week terms)
North Carolina Community College - $1,000 per 3-credit hour course (16-week terms)
Tennessee Community College - $455/credit hour (15-week terms)

I also have inquired about teaching with other online universities such as Kaplan University , CTU , Park University, Strayer University , AIU , etc. Here is some basic info that I've found:

$1,200 per course (6-week term)
$1,850 per course (10-week term)
$130 per student per course (capped at 25 students)

The pay varies so much, but many of the schools charge in the same tuition range, so one has to wonder.

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