On Wednesday we started discussing details of the academic career, such as salary expectations, appointment coverage, and negotiation during hiring. I've been doing some personal research on these topics, mostly because I'm using my degree to switch careers from industry into academia and I'd like to know up-front what the academic career is like, especially compared to industry. I honestly was surprised to learn that a starting salary for an assistant professor is in the low eighties, I was expecting it to be lower than that. I was also surprised to learn that summer support can be negotiated for the first couple of years. I'm hoping we can have some more discussion about this topic. I've been poking around Chronicle Careers and have found some interesting articles about this topic, a recent one being a new column about three new professors.
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