Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1891 — Salaries of College Professors. [ARTICLE]

Salaries of College Professors.

Eight years ago inquiries were made which showed that in the lesser colleges SI,BOO a year was the average for a full professorship. Columbia paid $7,500; Harvard and Johns Hopkins, $5,000; Yale was endeavoring to rca 'h this level; the maximum at the University of Pennsylvania, Amherst, Williams, and other ■colleges of like rank' was $3,000: at Michigan $2,500, and so on down to SI,OOO or lesg in small in;stitutions. These figures have not materially changed, but the numb f of institutions offering $5,000 has increased and $3,000 no longer cocitnauds a good man unless he is very young. ‘ ’