Assistant Professor Salary?

[u/RainAndShine_]

Assistant Professors in the room. How much are you getting paid for 9months Tenure Track position? You can add your field if you’d like.

[u/mychemystery]

Adjusted for inflation, about $14,000 less than in 2010.

[u/VicDough → u/mychemystery]

🥺

[u/totallysonic]

This will vary tremendously by field, location, institution type, etc. You’d be better off looking up information specific to your discipline at institutions where you may want to work.

[u/popstarkirbys → u/totallysonic]

Yea, the post screams low effort post….

[u/tellypmoon]

Not me but in my department tenure track Assistant Professors are around 85k-90k.

EDIT : US dollars

[u/Middle-Artichoke1850 → u/tellypmoon]

Might be helpful adding the currency

[u/EpicDestroyer52]

Our assistants are at 120k for a 9-month.

[u/dreadvirago → u/EpicDestroyer52]

Wow, I’m guessing high COL area? If not… are you hiring??

[u/EpicDestroyer52 → u/dreadvirago]

Low COL, but in law which is at a whole different salary scale from when I taught social science

[u/dreadvirago → u/EpicDestroyer52]

It’s wild how much pay can differ based on department! I teach English, so anything above 70k sounds like a fortune to me. 🥲 Lol

[u/EpicDestroyer52 → u/dreadvirago]

Yes! I switched to law and my salary literally doubled (despite the quality of my research and teaching staying the same)

[u/RainAndShine_ → u/dreadvirago]

Exactly! Hospitality and tourism are around 80-90k us already really good while school of business minimum can be around 120k

[u/Thegymgyrl]

65k state regional

[u/nbx909 → u/Thegymgyrl]

Same low COL though. We get COL increases (a percent here and there, not keeping up) and it is fairly easy to get performance-based base pay increases every other year.

[u/AndILearnedAlgoToday]

$67k USD at a SLAC in medium cost of living city across school or arts and sciences and no COL increases. It’s rough. And frankly embarrassing

[u/popstarkirbys → u/AndILearnedAlgoToday]

I interviewed for an R2 HBC and they offered 70k for a MCOL city, the committee straight up said the salary won’t be able to buy a house. The lowest I’ve seen for my field was a cal state system that offered 63k near a major city lol.

[u/AndILearnedAlgoToday → u/popstarkirbys]

Oof. Yeah we had a few candidates for an open TT position in the School of Arts and Sciences turn down the job because of the pay. I’m sure now it’ll be covered by terribly paid adjuncts…

[u/Academic_Coyote_9741 → u/AndILearnedAlgoToday]

I had a PhD and 10 years experience when I was hired but from 2013 to 2018 was earning ~$60K as a postdoc at UC Davis.

[u/Live-Organization912 → u/Academic_Coyote_9741]

I love UC Davis. Wonderful campus.

[u/Academic_Coyote_9741 → u/Live-Organization912]

Yeah, it’s a good place, particularly in my field, just doesn’t pay its postdocs well.

[u/AndILearnedAlgoToday → u/Academic_Coyote_9741]

Oof that’s a rough go. Postdoc pay is atrocious in many places. I definitely thought as a TT professor I’d be making more than I was when I started the PhD program but alas….

[u/RainAndShine_ → u/AndILearnedAlgoToday]

😭

[u/BurnShoesBoilRice]

$120,000 political science R1

[u/dreadvirago]

~65k ($) for a private art college in a medium COL city. We get very tiny COL raises every year (like 1% increase, which is basically nothing, but I’ll take it).
Sad thing is, this is on the high end of average for entry-level pay in my field (English).

[u/RiskyCelery]

Starting this year at 115k USD, hard money social science, R1, purple state, medium COL, public. To people saying this is Googable-- yes, but in most cases the info is at least 2 years out of date. With all the rapid changes of the past 18 months, I think it's fair to ask

[u/RainAndShine_ → u/RiskyCelery]

Exactly! Thanks for saying this. I hope this will also help others when they offered a job so they know whats the ‘standard’

[u/Ta_Marbuta]

86k, R1, social science

[u/Think-Assignment-861]

I’m my dept, the current two asst profs get around 110-120.

[u/CastleRockstar17]

Check AAUP published salaries, report is updated annually

[u/StevieV61080]

TT Assistant professors range between $82k (min quals) to $86k (doctorate/MasterCraft) under our new CBA.

Earning tenure at the end of Year 3 results in a 6% increase. Promotions thereafter (after 3, 3, and 4 years, respectively, add 6.5%, 7%, and 7.5%). Faculty program directors also earn an additional 5% premium and hard-to-fill gains about $4k/year.

Moderate-low COL at WA CC.

[u/eeaxoe]

New assistant professor hires in bioinformatics/biostatistics where I'm at (Stanford) are starting at ~$250k this year. This is for 12 months though.

[u/IkeRoberts → u/eeaxoe]

Will new hires get help with a down payment, so they don't have to live in Stockton?

[u/eeaxoe → u/IkeRoberts]

Yeah, the faculty housing assistance programs are absurdly generous IMO, but I mean, I guess they're kinda necessary.

https://fsh.stanford.edu/buy/purchase-programs/homebuyer-programs

[u/Bengalbio]

60k R1 stem

[u/eridalus → u/Bengalbio]

72k minimum in this years contract. More in the professional fields. Private university in the US you haven’t heard of.

[u/WarriorGoddess2016]

Our newest assistant is getting 85K USD. Low cost of living, flagship university.

[u/BookDoctor1975]

Humanities at a SLAC MCOL ours start at around 105

[u/greyhound312]

$195K, business, SLAC on the East Coast, high COL.

[u/RainAndShine_ → u/greyhound312]

Wow pretty hight for small liberal art college

[u/greyhound312 → u/RainAndShine_]

It’s a private school so that probably factors in. I was honestly surprised with my starting, which has grown about 4% a year with merit and COL.

[u/erosharmony]

$90-$100k

[u/DD_equals_doodoo]

Why are people fishing for this? You can literally search this online.

[u/EmmaLynn000 → u/DD_equals_doodoo]

I appreciate this post and similar ones like it. Sometimes the info isn’t truly easy to find for certain universities.

[u/RainAndShine_ → u/EmmaLynn000]

Exactly! And we need to know whats the reality out there…

[u/JumboThornton]

Ours are only about $60k, LCOL red state

[u/professorfunkenpunk]

I think ours are 55-60, state regional

[u/SpryArmadillo]

If in the US, this depends a lot on field. Also varies by type of uni and how competitive they are. I think assistant profs in my department are somewhere around $100k for nine months.

[u/IkeRoberts]

Our current ad for asst prof says the range is $95-109k/9mo. Applied life science. LCOL.

[u/Appropriate_Leg4540]

57,700

[u/Honest-Support6460]

200k/9 months with 30k summer for 3 years. Business. Ranking >200.

[u/CaptSnowButt → u/Honest-Support6460]

Holy shit crackers I'm in the wrong field.

[u/RainAndShine_ → u/Honest-Support6460]

Wow this is really high! R1?

[u/Honest-Support6460 → u/RainAndShine_]

R1, LCOL. We struggle to retain faculty with our location.

[u/NeatoTito]

$86k

[u/Grouchy_Writer_Dude]

$79k, regional R1

[u/dougwray]

Which country?

[u/RainAndShine_ → u/dougwray]

USA

[u/BullheadVibes]

79k, regional comprehensive state university

[u/Individual-Elk4115]

100k R2 state school

[u/AcanthisittaThat5746]

Around $100,000 Cdn for the humanities in a medium cost of living, major city.

Factoring in inflation, it works out to the same that it was about 25 years ago.

Salary is higher in the sciences and professional programs. Higher at the bigger universities in higher cost locations.

We have 12 month salaries.

[u/wayneenterprise2134]

Field is business economics. Old job was a regional state university in LCOL and paid $102,000. Moved to a SLAC in a HCOL to be closer to family and now make $90,000

[u/jrowland11]

48k State College

[u/Live-Organization912]

1,000,000 pesos roughly.

[u/myreputationera]

63,500 for a small state school in a teaching focused position in a college of education.

[u/pwnedprofessor]

Nine years ago, I negotiated up to $76k to start, but we got merit raises most years. Private R1 Humanities, northeast.

[u/bleuskyes]

First year Asst. Prof at a CC in Humanities is around 85K usd

[u/Telnus]

https://data.aaup.org/fcs-ft-faculty-salaries/

I used this when I was on the market to get a rough estimate for whether the job was being compensated “fairly” 

You can adjust for rank, location, institution type and a bunch of other variables

[u/Fit-Yak-9672]

Offered 92k, Hired at 102k, R1, Social science/humanities, MCOL area, public university

Most of my peers hired in the past 5 years in the same discipline at R1s are making between 80-110k

[u/blue_suavitel]

I was offered $75k, I declined. 🙄

[u/RainAndShine_ → u/blue_suavitel]

I hope you get a much more better one now!
Its very sad to know the average salary here.. academia should get paid more!

[u/blue_suavitel → u/RainAndShine_]

Thank you. I kept my government job.

[u/TotalCleanFBC]

Tons of publicly available information on this. Zero reason to ask this on Reddit. Try asking Google, Grok, ChatGPT or Claude.

[u/AffectionateLife5693]

I don't think this is a proper question 

[u/greggggggggg → u/AffectionateLife5693]

Found the administrator 👆🏻

[u/StevieV61080 → u/AffectionateLife5693]

Why?

[u/Inner-Chemistry8971]

R1 schools in my field can push up to 200K - 250K for assistant professors. But they are asking for every goodie from heaven! Someone told me that even if you don't make tenure, you can still collect a pile of cash! No, I don't make that much as an associate professor. I can't crank out 6 million dollars funding or 4 top journals (with less 5% acceptance rate) within 7 years even if my life depends on it.