Jobs for Philosophers: Salary Information

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Friday, 10 August 2007 03:02

Here's an interesting (and mostly upbeat) post on "work environment, salary and job prospects in the philosophy profession". The author also offers his take on starting salary differences: [blockquote] Starting salary in a tenure line ranges from $30,000-60,000 depending on many factors. Interestingly, prestigious schools do not always pay more than community colleges. For example, a friend of mine is a professor at Cal State and makes $63,000 a year with a PhD. One person who has an MA makes about $65,000 at a nearby community college and has the same number of years, etc. Unions tend to be a major factor as well. Public schools in strong union states tend to pay well. [/blockquote] For more on this topic, salary.com now has fancy graphs on associate professor salaries: here and [link=http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresult_national_ED03000219.html]here[/link] [blockquote] Percentile (U.S. National Averages for Associate Professors of Philosophy*) 10th $36,944 25th $47,434 75th $94,470 90th $126,803 * The "median expected salary for a typical Assoc. Professor - Philosophy - Higher Ed. in the United States is $59,772."[/blockquote] AcademicKeys.com reports the following salary information: [blockquote]

Philosophy:	Average Salary
Assistant Professor	$ 48,162
Associate Professor	$ 59,429
Professor	$ 82,030

[/blockquote] And as always, specific salary information for individual professors is made avaliable for some (public) univerisities, like U. of Virginia: salary info (2004). It seems a bit odd, but there it is.... The SF Gate has published professor salaries for the University of California system in the past as well. One interesting thing to note about that data, is that it includes"total pay includes. . . housing allowances, relocation allowances, administrative stipends, revenue sharing and more than a dozen other types of cash compensation." This is obviously a very important part of compensation in universities that is not reflected by base salaries. Also, Brian Leiter posted some info on this topic last year, comparing philosophy professors to other humanties here.

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