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In reply to the discussion: $15,000 Per Course is Fair [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)8. I received a 15k a year stipend as a grad student
on top of tuition being paid, and only taught a single course each semester. I wasn't exactly a rare expert.
(Edit, of course, that would be easier to understand if I'd mentioned what tuition was running at that point. Where I went, I think it was around 4-5k a semester. So my total reimbursement wasn't quite the 30k as if I'd been paid 15k a course, but it also covered summer tuition, which got me over the 2/3 mark. And that was as a grad student, not a professor of any type.)
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What is the per-hour equivalent of the "$15,000 per course" they are asking? n/t
PoliticAverse
Apr 2015
#1
I think its $100+ and its never going to happen unless someone is a rare expert.
aikoaiko
Apr 2015
#7
A 3-credit course is generally not 15 hours of work per week. This is part-time work.
aikoaiko
Apr 2015
#18
there's more to it than just the time in class lecturing. Student meetings, grading papers...
TeamPooka
Apr 2015
#13
$15K would be ridiculously high. Depending on where the adjunct teaches, $5K seems about right
Vattel
Apr 2015
#15
When I was an adjunct, I worked, as I said then, 2/3 time for 1/3 time money and no benefits
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2015
#20
I do. Due to my union, I make just under $30k a year for teaching 2 courses each semester.
Starry Messenger
Apr 2015
#32
Related: Connecticut man earns more money working at a grocery store than as a college professor
PoliticAverse
May 2015
#34