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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Associate professors are creeping into the mid $200s now too, non-tenure track, and fresh out of PhD. Part of this is salary creep when mixed with an egalitarian university environment. When you pay $1m+ for the big name ‘vanity professors’ the folks that teach the rest of the core classes can’t be too many multiples off or you’d not be able to staff the courses.[/quote]

What?  Please tell me where non-tenure track newly PhD professors are getting 200k as a starting salary? Maybe in Finance, but not anywhere else, surely.  I know a true superstar humanities professor at a truly top school, and he got a bit more than $200k to move there, after he had already had tenure elsewhere for 4-5 years.  [/quote]

DP.  Don’t you know that associate  professors are usually tenure track and, in some instances, have tenure?  Throw in sabbaticals and summers off sometimes (yes, summers off—my parents are tenured professors) and it’s a darn fine job.  Good luck getting one, though.  Many are staying on through their 80s.  There’s an odd, felt need among some people (see, e.g., this thread) to downplay the increased money many professors have been getting for quite some time now.  It’s like some folks need to believe they are underpaid.  [/quote]

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