Associate professors are neither professors at the top of the pyramid in colleges and universities, distinguished professor, lecturers or "four green Yangtze River" professors, nor lecturers at the bottom of the pyramid who are suffering or assistant professors who will leave without promotion or full-time research posts, but groups with relatively stable career expectations and little fluctuation in wages and incomes.
Combining the two, there are not many associate professors in 985 universities, but they are definitely more than enough. They are most suitable as the industry baseline of colleges and universities to judge the relative position of college teachers' salaries in the whole society. On the Internet, the salary of university teachers often ranges from 5,000 yuan a month to 500,000 yuan a year, but the average will fluctuate around 10000.
An associate professor at Fudan University earned 9,949 yuan after deducting the rent of teachers' apartment. Of course, among the 985 colleges and universities, Fudan has always been known for its low salary, but it has occupied the position of a famous school and a magic capital. No matter how low the salary is, some people will bring their own dry food to apply for a job.
Many people in the society either don't believe this salary level. You still have a lot of income besides your monthly salary, such as class fees, performance pay, research subsidies and so on. Don't cry poor! Or do you think you only have two or three classes a week and winter and summer vacations? It's good enough to get so much salary. Why cry for poverty?
For the former view, the high income of a single teacher is assumed to be the income level of the whole industry, and the actual composition of college salaries is simply unknown. For the latter view, it is even more interlaced, and I have never experienced the working mode of university teachers at all. Almost well frogs can't talk about the sea, and summer insects can't talk about ice.
In fact, in order to break the high impression of society and the low reality of colleges and universities, we can take the salary income of associate professors in 985 colleges and universities as the industry baseline and observe the possible reasons for the great dislocation inside and outside.