Not sure where you went to school, but this definitely isn’t the case everywhere. I went to a state school, and freshly minted faculty were making 60-80k, while

Not sure where you went to school, but this definitely isn’t the case everywhere. I went to a state school, and freshly minted faculty were making 60-80k, while folks with tenure were in the 100-125K range. The only people making salaries like you describe were higher level administrators and of course the football coach.