How much are professors paid?

So for your consideration, here is the same data as above, but normalized by the median home price for each city:

This is an age-old debate when considering the job market for faculty… should one chase the cosmopolitan lifestyle of a big city, or be in the upper echelon of a small town? Here is the data for jobs listed as “Professor” or “Faculty”, with medians shown as heavy circles….

Most of these curves are very skewed towards low salaries, endemic of the state of college faculty hiring and the reliance on part-time labor…

Washington state has 30 public colleges (mostly community colleges). Here is the data for jobs listed as “Professor” or “Faculty”, with medians shown as heavy circles….

Source: www.ifweassume.com