http://www.kansas.com/803

$100K at WSU’s Frank Barton School of Business appears to be about the average for professors. None make much more than that.

Surprisingly, there are professors at KU who one would think make substantially more … but they don’t, they actually make slightly less. These are Doctorate degreed full-tenured professors of Engineering, Sciences, Law and Business, too, not English teachers.

I’ve yet to find anyone at KU, KSU or WSU making even close to $200,000, let alone $300,000. Except the men’s sports coaches :-/

For Public Institutions, 2005-06: $12,108

source: http://nces.ed.gov/FastFacts/display.asp?id=76

http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/index.php?action=result&search=Enter+an+institution+name&state=Kansas&year= 2009&category=&withRanks=1&limit=

FYI, I make $51,000/yr. and received no increase this year (no one in our college did). In addition, most of the faculty at any univ are not full professors (who as the most senior and highest paid occasionally, but not often, make over 100k). In my dept, NO faculty member makes over $85,000. New faculty start at $45,000. The school director makes about $100,000; our Dean makes about $150,000, we think (keep in mind there are only six deans; above them are the Provost and President).

BTW, that database is quite wrong…my colleagues and I had a good laugh at it when we noticed it last year. I don’t know where the 300,000 numbers come from; I’ve never known any professor who makes that. maybe at Harvard, I don’t know. Nonetheless, here is a link to some REAL data…keep in mind they averages and that faculty salaries vary greatly from department to department (philosophy is not paid the same as engineering):

http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/index.php?action=result&search=Enter+an+institution+name&state=Kansas&year=2009&category=&withRanks=1&limit=

PAB’s comment and salary figure’s listed are basically the top percentile’s, and somewhat misleading. However, salaries over $100K for full professors at public universities like KU, KSU, and WSU are the norm, not the exception. At least with respect to those educated in fields where there is actually private sector demand for their skills. Tenured professors in business, engineering, and certain sciences all earn more than the average person would guess.

Look for yourself. The Wichita Eagle built a searchable database (that’s still accessible somewhere on this site) where you can input a given university employee’s name, and receive a salary in return. When I looked up most of the tenured professors I learned under, I actually couldn’t find a single one who made less than $100K. It was fairly surprising. Of course those were all business school professors. You could look up various liberal arts professors, and find plenty in the $50k’s and $60k’s because – let’s face it – if they weren’t employed in the cozy confines of education, their career options would be very limited in scope, and very mediocre in pay.