[stevenbedrick]

When you count in the cost of benefits, retirement, overhead, etc., I can easily imagine a full-time janitorial position costing the university 70k.

[markhahn]

Fair enough. But this guy is talking about his takehome, not the fully-encumbered price for his position.

[mooreds]

I think part of the point is that the attractiveness of a contract instructor is that the fully encumbered price is very much closer to the take home salary than for a tenured professor (or indeed, even a janitor).