Highest paid professors: the list - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com

The average salary of a full-time faculty member rose 1.2 percent over the last year. That is the smallest increase professors have received in at least 50 years, according to the latest annual study from the American Association of University Professors.

As culled earlier today by Inside Higher Ed, here are some lists of the universities with the highest average pay for full-time full professors. Harvard takes the top slot.

via economix.blogs.nytimes.com

Top 10 Universities in Salaries for Full-Time Full Professors

University	Average Salary
1. Harvard University	$191,200
2. Columbia University	$188,600
3. University of Chicago	$184,100
4. Stanford University	$181,400
5. Princeton University	$181,000
6. Yale University	$174,100
7. California Institute of Technology	$171,900
8. New York University	$171,700
9. Yeshiva University	$170,700
10. University of Pennsylvania	$170,100

Top 10 Public Universities in Salaries for Full-Time Full Professors

University	Average Salary
1. New Jersey Institute of Technology	$151,500
2. University of California at Los Angeles	$148,000
3. University of California at Berkeley	$145,800
4. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor	$144,000
5. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$143,000
6. Rutgers University at Newark	$142,900
7. University of Maryland at Baltimore	$141,100
8. Rutgers University at New Brunswick	$140,100
9. Georgia Institute of Technology	$139,400
10. Rutgers University at Camden	$137,400

Top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges in Salaries for Full-Time Full Professors

College	Average Salary
1. Wellesley College	$142,900
2. Amherst College	$135,300
3. Claremont McKenna College	$135,100
4. Pomona College	$134,700
5. Barnard College	$134,100
6. Harvey Mudd College	$130,700
7. Williams College	$130,500
8. Wesleyan University	$129,400
9. Smith College	$128,400
10. Bowdoin College	$127,800

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[universal]

Professors should be paid even more, I think