how much can one expect to make as an english professor?

Question

I am interested in becoming an english professor at a college/university, and I was wondering what the average salary was for an english professor in the united states? i heard it was fairly high. ranked even above a lawyer on this list of highest paying jobs in america that i found. is this true?

Answer 1

No -- it is not true. University professors in the liberal arts do not make much compared to lawyers. The range for an assistant professor at a university that confers doctorates is about $60K-70K. For master's universities, the range is about $50K-60K. For the average university that only confers bachelor's degrees, the salary is less.

Professors in the better professional schools make salaries that are about double that.

Answer 2

false. lawyers get paid a lot because a lot of people loves to sue. there are people out there who sue for even the littlest of things or the craziest reasons. some lawyers get paid per hour + they also get paid whenever they win a case.

to be an english professor here are the factors you have to consider:

1. what is your level of (pre)/collegiate degree?
2.what is your level of experience?
3.which state and which county? different states/county have different minimum salary.
4.are you going to teach on a private or a community college?
5.how many hours per week are you willing to work?
6.how many school are you planning to work for?
-IF YOU WILL WORK 120 HOURS/WEEK ON THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOL, THEN MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, YOU'D BE MAKING MORE THAN A LAWYER ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. but, are you willing to work that hard?? 120 hours, man that's crazy. that's like killing yourself.
7.if you will work for, let's say, 3 schools - how much will you get on tax refunds?
8. are u a man or a woman? it's sad to say that gender sometime has an effect on to how much you will get paid.
9.can you handle hollering students?
10. don't ask yourself the factors anymore and go to www.cbsalary.com hehe.

Answer 3

Starting pay is around $25 an hour. Could be a little more now, maybe $30. That's per class room hour.

The bad news is you may only get one class to teach.

You generally go in a pitch a class to the department, if they like the idea they give you a room. If you don't get enough students signing up, they cancell the class and you're on the street.

Many instructions have to work at several insitutions.

One Poly Sci instructor I took taught some courses at Pepperdine as well as at a local JC in the evening division. He was also an elector for Reagan who voted in the Electorial College.

It's not uncommon for a first year instructor to make under $15,000 a year. Possibly as little as $8,000

If a given school likes you they'll give you more classes, often in night division where no one wants to teach.

Eventually you're pulling enough of a work load to make $35,000 a year and then it's up to you to get grants, get published, write a text book, get on PBS reviewing movies, get on the local Weather talking about the night skies for 2 minutes (that pays $500 a week in a union shop).

Then as positions open up you go from being a lecuturer to an Associate or Assistant Professor and eventually a Professor and eventually as assistant Department Head.

But that takes 15-20 years in most instances.

Now, my Cinema professor who was working on his PHD Dissertation, came to a small college that was teaching filmmaking in the Theater Department by asking students to buy an Super 8mm movie camera.

He proposed and entire department. Brought in some of his own personal equipment intially, taught most of the classes and eventually attracted professional union Sound and Cinematography people to work night division and he got grants to buy equipment including 35mm, 16mm, Kem tables, Moviolas, SelSync sound equipment, a mixing board.

He made that department equal to the state university in programs and better in equipment.

So got paid paid well and made Department Head quickly.

That's another way to do it. Go where there is next to nothing and offer to help turn it into something.

But you need grants and funding.

Now, you might design a creative writing class with the direction of getting as many students published as is possible.

You have to deliver on that promise.

Now a lawyer straight out of college into a law firm makes from $65K to $150K to start.

You're only going to make $150K as a Department Chair and probably with grant projects in works.

Remember, you can pay yourself from the grant money. YOu don't work for free.

YOu don't pocket it all either. You have to read the restrictions on the grant and to what it can used for. Apply for grants that include payments to people doing work.

YOu find a small college that can give you three classes minimum. And then you see if you can get grants going to maybe make a Journal from that school. A Literary journal with articles of merit, fiction, poetry, all from students at the school.

You work at it you can find $250,000 in grant money to buy equipement, pay a small stiepend to students to run the place. And then you pick and choose submissions, make it available at a nomal fee maybe or get a grant to make it free and you submit it to literary critics at big newspapers, all the major magazines and allow the students to sell additional rights.

Maybe you get some re-published, maybe some editor at Conde Nast sees good work from the same author over and over and offers them a position when they graduate.

Now you qualify for Federal Funding for placing students in working situations.

What you don't want to do is step on the English Department Chair's feet.

If the English Department as virtually NO creative writing courses, then you are safe. You get integrated into that Deparment and maybe they make you Assistant Chair down the line covering Creative Writing.

This is how you make bigger money as a professor.

You get on Local TV as the book critic. You get into the local newspaper as the book critic, may not even pay any money only a BY line. IF it does pay it's $30 a shot.

Answer 4

I really don't know how much money an English professor makes but most of them do it because they love what they do.

Answer 5

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