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What? Academics may not make the same salary as industry... but an engineering professor generally makes >$100k / yr. For example, you can look up the salary of most public university professors (eg. from Georgia Tech/UGA): http://www.open.georgia.gov/

You might not get rich... but it can definitely be livable with a high quality of life.

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If you get a tenured position, it can be a $100k/year job. Tenured jobs are harder and harder to get, and adjuncts are compensated badly.

I think "associate professor" is the untenured position, regardless they seem to be all 100k +... even in Canadia:

https://uwaterloo.ca/about/what-we-stand/accountability/sala...

Associate Professors are usually tenured. Assistant Professors usually aren't.

The untenured position is really a sessional instructor, which I'm sure also goes by different names, but involves zero job security and extremely shitty pay. It's not a salaried position, it's a "per course you teach that semester" position.

This is true for some fields, at some schools. Median salary for an associate professor (the first rank with tenure) at my institution is 63k.

The average salary for professors at UCSF used to be ~$160K.

UCSF is also one of the top ranking medical research centers in the world. I'm sure that most of the faculty at UCSF could go elsewhere an make even more money.

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