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What professors make
Associate professor
$122,000
New assistant professor
$63,000
Full professor
$192,000
Job Bank's national median is $58.89 an hour, about $122,000 a year full time. That covers people already hired into a professor job. Sessional instructors, who are paid course by course on short contracts, earn far less and are not in this range.