From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: average salaries by rank and area.
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4 Comments
I am curious. What do the very high salaries in sociology look like? My Canadian colleagues seem to think that American sociology stars are making a mint, but I have no info on it either way.
I don’t really know the answer to Tina’s question. This Chronicle chart is too highly aggregated to be informative. E.g. economists make a LOT more than sociologists, as a rule, but they are lumped together as social science.
If you’re curious and have a lot of time, some public universities’ salaries are public record, e.g., UNC, IU, and UVA. There’s some aggregated lists here.
you can look up the salary of anyone in the UC system who earns over $100,000 here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/06/05/ucpay2008.DTL
from this, it seems a top sociology professor can earn something like $180,000 to $220,000, with the usual full professor pay at UCLA and Berkeley being something like $115,000. the pay for the best of the best sociologists may compare pretty favorably to other disciplines: for example, in 2006-7 fields medalist terry tao ‘only’ earned $250,000 (though by 2008 this had jumped up to nearly $400,000).
obviously since it only lists those earning more than $100,000 there’s no information on assistant and associate professors.
economics professors are getting something around $300,000 it seems :(