> Professionals making 200k … at the tail end of their career Associate is not the tail end. There are three tenure-track/tenured titles in US academia: Assis

> Professionals making 200k … at the tail end of their career Associate is not the tail end. There are three tenure-track/tenured titles in US academia: Assistant Professor (untenured, usually held for 6 to 8 years) Associate Professor (usually tenured, and thus held possibly indefinitely, but usually people get promoted to the next level in a few years) Professor (tenured, also called “full professor”) SBF’s parents have been full professors for a while. So their numbers are higher than the one the person who replied to you found on Glassdoor.