Some of the salary figures quoted in posts above are misleading, if not just wrong. The “average salary” of “Professors,” is not the same thing as the average salary of the tenure stream faculty as a whole (assistant professors, associate professors, and (full) professors). Nor is it the average salary of tenured professors (which basically is associate and full professors). Nor is it the average salary of the teaching faculty as a whole, which includes a whole not of adjunct professors and instructors who are not in the “tenure stream.”
I’m not going to try to fish such data out. I just to say WATCH out.