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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some salaries in higher ed are inflated for sure, especially in administration and business and law schools. but MBAs and JD programs are also piggie banks for the school because students pay full freight. And as others have said this does not apply to your average sociology professor, especially pre-tenure. my friend who was at the top of his field at an Ivy in a humanities niche made less than I did (7 years into teAching) in my first job out of law school as a law clerk! Now he makes $150k after 10 years of tenure (in NYC, so adjust for COL). A nice job but not a boondoggle.

Humanities super super stars can make bank (by switching schools and bidding up their salaries) but this is rare. [/quote]

Right, but what’s the market, outside of academia, for someone with a degree in a “humanities niche”?  There is no market.[/quote]

Why is that a relevant question?  The job of a professor is to be a professor in a university, so comparing them to someone on the general job market doesn't make any sense.  At any rate, someone smart and hard-working enough to get tenure at an Ivy and be at the top of their field would likely do just fine outside of a university setting as well.  [/quote]

No one is saying they aren't smart or couldn't do well in life. But the reality is most people don't want to start over. They're not getting a PhD finished until what 26-28. Then a few yrs of bouncing around as an associate prof etc. I can't imagine you're getting full tenure until 35-ish. So when you're 35 and your full tenured offer for 90k comes thru -- are you really going to say -- well I could do better than this in IT, I'll retrain and that's that? Or are you more likely to have a spouse/kids/mortgage and not be willing to uproot if you're at some far flung school?[/quote]

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