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What college instructors make
Median
$94,000
Lower end
$50,000
Upper end
$153,000
Job Bank's national median is $45 an hour, about $94,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower and upper ends are Job Bank's low and high wages for everyone in the group, $24.04 and $73.72 an hour. The page pools college teachers of every subject, from nursing to welding. Full-time faculty sit on a grid that climbs each year; part-time teaching is paid by the hour with no security.