Is it not worthy an economically sustainable income? According to their salary schedule, an assistant professor makes a minimum of $60k, and the median makes $90k. I'm not an American, but isn't that a decent salary? And from what understand, Las Vegas isn't a particularly expensive place to live.
The U.N. salary schedule doesn't seem to include adjunct professors, only professors, associate professors and assistant professors. It does include a grade below called "instructors", can that be it? They still make a median income of almost $66k.
What UN salary schedule? The American rank at which the plurality of academic instructors work is adjunct.
>Adjunct professors now make up half of all college faculties, and 76 percent of instructional positions are filled on a contingent basis, according to the American Association of University Professors’ annual report on the “economic status of the profession.” There’s no starker way to consider adjuncts’ economic status than to hear that they’re paid an average of $2,000-$3,000 per class, with few to no benefits.
Adjuncts typically don't get paid a salary; they get paid a certain amount for each course they teach, so they aren't on that schedule. UN pays their adjuncts $1,130 per credit[1, Section 6], so someone teaching four courses each semester would make $27,120 per year.
