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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an aside, I agree with the poster who commented about ADEA's exemption expiration in 1993 (since January 1, 1994, universities are legally barred from having a mandatory retirement age -- previously they could force retirement age 70) being an issue.

Tenured faculty (who on average at "well-resourced" schools are making $175k+/year) can keep working indefinitely, teaching their 2 classes a semester. Some are fantastic. Some are not.

Before someone interjects that I've wildly overstated faculty pay, let's consider the average full professor pay at the most-resourced schools (focus of this thread) in 2021:

Harvard: $252,991/yr
Columbia: $237,919/yr
Princeton: $266,262/yr
Brown: $195,420/yr
Yale: $250,192/yr
Stanford: $268,304/yr
Rice: $206,550/yr
Northwestern: $217,881/yr
MIT: $250,011/yr
UPenn: $246,410/yr
Duke: $207,338/yr
Notre Dame: $193,373/yr
UChicago: $251,975/yr

And for some publics:
UCLA: $237,735/yr
UC Berkeley: $228,809/yr
UVA: $190,762/yr
UT Austin: $186,330/yr
UMichigan: $180,274/yr
UMD: $170,619/yr

On the other end of the spectrum you have low-paid adjuncts making criminally low wages at many institutions (though admittedly not those listed above - they tend not to use adjuncts frequently). I think this disparity is heightened due to pressures of tenured faculty working indefinitely. [/quote]
Do you think 250k is an unreasonable salary for a tenured full professor at an Ivy League or equivalent school?  They’re almost certainly a PhD and probably one of the most respected in their fields.  I just had a kid that works for me go to google and make 230k with a bachelors degree from a big SEC school and three years of experience.
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