The salary of professors is not high, and there are special funds for projects and lectures. First of all, 86 yuan is given to professors in each class, and 23 yuan is subsidized to colleges in each class. The basic salary is 3650 yuan, which is special (not counting five insurances and one gold), as well as professional title subsidies and other subsidies. Some have made special contributions, and the government and the State Council have subsidies.

Before, there was media speculation about the annual salary of one million lecturers in Tsinghua University, and Tsinghua University News Center had to stand up again and clarify that the actual annual salary of each lecturer in Tsinghua was not that high, while the annual salary of one million lecturers in Tsinghua was a professor group, and each group was composed of at least four people.

Pei, director of the Personnel Department of Tsinghua University, said in an interview that it is right for Tsinghua to hire lecturers with an annual salary of one million, but the so-called lecturers are generally a group of "professors". Savindi, an academician of the American Academy of Engineering and a professor at Purdue University, was the first foreign language department director hired by Tsinghua University last year. He invites three or four internationally renowned scholars to give lectures in Tsinghua every year, earning millions of dollars a year. According to another introduction, the annual salary of the lecturer is not paid by the school or the government, but donated by the enterprise.

Tsinghua University must have a first-class faculty and famous teachers in various disciplines to make progress towards a world-class university. This is the original intention of Tsinghua to hire a lecture professor. Pei Zhaohong believes that the professor has brought at least several influences: the new training scheme, the new curriculum system, and the improvement of undergraduate and graduate teaching methods, including the bilingual teaching of the Department of Industrial Engineering, which started in September this year, and the textbooks, handouts and assignments of professional courses are all in English; In scientific research, due to the international influence of these professors, they can apply for some international scientific research projects together; It has a direct impact on young teachers' scientific research and teaching ability; And expanded international exchanges in Tsinghua University.

Director Pei said that Tsinghua University has benefited a lot since the implementation of the professor system for one year, and Tsinghua will continue to employ professors. In three to five years, the number of professors in Tsinghua will reach 50. In addition, Tsinghua does not rule out the possibility of hiring a "foreign dean" after the Department of Industrial Engineering.