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Overhead is why your institution wants you to apply for grants, of course. Note the particularity of not paying professors over summer is only true for the USA
by jll29 4y ago
Overhead is why your institution wants you to apply for grants, of course.
Note the particularity of not paying professors over summer is only true for the USA. In Germany, for example, you will get 13 monthly salaries for 12 months of work (the extra one is in November and helps one to pay for Christmas presents).
What really matters in the end is one´s quality of life for the annual net salary, of course.
Thanks for uploading some sample documents - interesting to see how they look like in the US.
- Fomite 4y agoIt should be noted its not even universally true in the USA. I've never had to cover summer salary. It's always been a question of a hard vs. soft money percentage. Often one where just having to cover somewhere between 0 and 3 months would have been enviable.
- jll29 4y agoHa, I didn't know it can differ. You would think professors are smart enough that they would have created a salary comparison website where you can compare countries and universities by salaries and benefits, alas this has not been done. Worse, as my wise (accountant) wife points out, "What do you get for all this peer reviewing work? Nothing! Just wasting our family weekend to make publishers rich!" What I can say is in Europe, Ireland and Switzerland have rather good salaries for academics. German professors mostly get the same prescribed salary from a table based on level (W2 or W3) and seniority: https://www.academics.de/ratgeber/gehalt-professor-was-verdient-ein-professor#subnav_wie_viel_verdienen_w2-_und_w3-professoren https://www.academics.de/ratgeber/gehalt-professor-was-verdi...
- Fomite 4y agoFaculty pay rates at most (if not all) state universities are publicly searchable. I ended up using that at least once during a salary negotiation.