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Since Texas is the topic: university salaries are public and used to be published in a Texas Tribune. A visiting professor at a Texas university, with probably
by kpw94 3y ago
Since Texas is the topic: university salaries are public and used to be published in a Texas Tribune. A visiting professor at a Texas university, with probably no intention of tenure based on his career, was paid $340k/y back in the 2010s:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-creator-of-C++-Bjarne-Stroustrups-net-financial-worth?top_ans=13272443 https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-creator-of-C++-Bjarne-Stro...
Of course he's not a nobody, but if Texas universities pay that kind of money to superstar professors, for small stints, this could attract people from industry that in the end are much more up to date on the industry's state of the art (vs the research state of the art).
The top 5 other professors (but probably many tenured) were making in the ~$200k range at that time too. In that part of the country, it's huge.
Ultimately tenure has a price. if there's no tenure, higher salaries would be offered.
Now the impact on student's tuition could be interesting, but if most of it goes to administrative staff anyways, who knows?
- uberman 3y agoYou might be able to cherry pick some outliers for sure. Just like at any company or institute. I can tell you from personal experience though that the going rate for a new hire full STEM professor with tenure at a prior institution was 95k at UT Austin in that time period.
- nostrademons 3y ago~$200K is about starting comp for fresh graduates at a FAANG. When a fresh college grad can make more than a tenured professor, it's awfully hard to convince people to take that first rung into academia, where you're getting paid a lot less than $200K.
- stusmall 3y ago> Of course he's not a nobody That's an understatement. He's one of the most famous names in computer science alive today. You can't look at the top 1% of 1% to make statements about the whole industry. $340k/year is a real TC range for no-name ICs at a FAANG these days. The numbers you are posting are making the opposite point you are trying to make.
- quantified 3y agoThrowing more money at professors' pay? Maybe, maybe not. Sounds like a political loser to me.
- UncleMeat 3y agoA good friend of mine is an assistant professor of CS at MIT. He is among the most premier researchers in his field. I'm paid about three times what he is paid working in industry. My wife is a professor of history at a well respected R1 institution. I'm paid like nine times what she is paid. If we compare my salary to the adjuncts at her institution, I'm paid more than 10x what they are earning. All this after the pay cuts for remote work. Paying Bjarne a lot of money is not remotely representative of the state of academic salaries.