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by sangel 1318 days ago
From my experience your first number is off by 3X and sometimes more depending on the university.

But yes, you make less as a professor than you do in industry.

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That definitely depends on the school. At my undergrad, tenure track CS faculty only got around 70k, going up to 90k over time. Lecturers got 55k. Adjuncts got paid more in exposure and good feelings than money. My grad school is a much bigger research school instead of a teaching school and the pay is surprisingly not much better (better, but not 180k until full professorship if ever from what I've found) from what I've heard.
For reference, at my uni (public) full tenured profs are making about $120k-$150k. Adjuncts are about $90k. Lecturers are around $70k. But that's in the CS department. Still, all of these people could be making at least double that in industry (some do double dip though).