I'm also part of the problem. I teach one course a year. So it's far from a fulltime thing. The pay is about 100$ per hour OF LECTURE. Considering the prep

I'm also part of the problem. I teach one course a year. So it's far from a fulltime thing. The pay is about 100$ per hour OF LECTURE. Considering the prep time needed, and the mandatory unpaid interaction with students after hours, it probably works out to 10-15$/hour. I'm part of the problem because I don't much care about the money. I teach because it impresses my clients, which brings me more realworld consulting work. Let's do the math for the last lecture I taught. 30 students pay about 900 each to take my class. That's 27K. But I also know half of the school's budget comes from the province (ie government support). So let's double that to say 50K, of which I take home 4 ... 8% to the instructor and the rest to the admins. I think the real issue is the larger move towards academic admin as a separate profession from teaching. None of my four bosses have ever taught a class. Law schools are probably the last vestige of the old system whereby most admins are senior profs, not professional administrators.