I'm always puzzled by the Hollywood tendency to depict as academics as these detached, wealthy almost-patrician figures - fancy suits, expensive cars, fine wines and well-appointed offices. What schools did all of these screen-writers go to? And are they hiring?
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Now, to be clear, at least on the tenure-track, professors are hardly poor. TT starting salaries in the humanities are usually something like 1.5-2x the median personal income (note, *personal* not household) in the USA.
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But we're hardly talking cigar-chomping-in-our-wood-paneled-offices money there, even for successful, late-career academics.
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I'm actually not sure this is true. Endowed chairs at elite schools can pay a quarter million dollars a year or more, which is satisfactorily cigar-chomping money as far as I'm concerned, particularly when you consider that the holders almost all *came* from money also.
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Depends on how we define elite here though. Endowed chairs at top-tier state schools make typically half of that. I mean, to be clear, it's still a lot. I think a lot of academics with jobs do not grapple as much as they should with how high they are on the income ladder.
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