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[rayofreason]

The number of $81k/yr comes directly from

http://losangeles.stateuniversity.com

and it is the AVERAGE salary for all full-time faculty. It is NOT the salary number only for senior faculty. And I only used the number for full-time faculty to do the calculation of the cost of instruction.

You are correct that non-tenured faculty do not make, on average, 81K/yr. It is probably closer to 32k/yr for a 4-course per semester load if they are teaching a lecturer rates of 4k/course. But I did not add the number of part-time faculty to the cost of instruction.

So I stand by my original calculation. A tuition rate of $6.4k/year is either close to or under the real cost of operating the university.