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by otteromkram 499 days ago
Post secondary professors have a median income of just over $84,000 in the US [0], which is above the median personal income of about $42,000 for 2023 [1].

Both those numbers took me less than a minute to find.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Education-Training-and-Library/Posts...

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N

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I strongly suspect that the income for lecturers at community colleges and continuing education (which is what someone on Udemy is competing with) is quite a bit lower.