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It depends on what they achieve really.
If they aren't ambitious and just plod along then add about £10k to the number.
If they are ambitious and go for promotion then most professors (non-clinical) will be in the £60-70k bracket, but that's a long road for most researchers/academics, it's not a postdoc one minute and a professor the next.
Promotion is dependent on a number of things including high quality publications and grant income (researchers and research academics, teaching academics have slightly different criteria).
Getting more difficult for a PhD to be worth it. Many struggle to find a job that was worthwhile, increasingly so.
I know many who did PhDs and taught at the same time, and they continued in pretty much the same role after, perhaps going full time. After that, the career hopefully improves but it's not guaranteed
If you take out the staff that previously were attached to the Welsh National School of Medicine the number of high earners would be considerably reduced.
I a world where we would all like to see tuition fee's driven down , and debt to young students reduced any investigation on how our public money is spent welcome .
I am reminded of this story line
""Dame Glynis Breakwell the vice-chancellor of Bath University, whose pay package of £468,000 has agreed to step down – but faced more criticism on Tuesday after it was revealed she will continue to be paid her full salary after she leaves her post.,sorry no one is worth that
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As interesting as this debate is Mike - its not football related - shove it on the politics board
Like it or not, the market for academics is global. GBP 100k as a salary for a senior academic isn't that abnormal for run-of-the-mill roles. I actually think, taking into account the number of medical faculty included, that Cardiff's reasonably high status in global rankings is surprising given the small number of staff earning GBP 100k or more.
Also, to whoever stated that many faculty have vast private earnings on top of their base university pay, you are deluded. Many, many faculty have zero extra pay (think English lecturer earning a few quid for writing some programme notes for the local theatre).
As long as they are making a profit and pulling on public purse strings it feels a bit better I'm still shocked when you consider their position in the pecking order of the students choice of Uni's
My institution has a budget this year of over $1 billion dollars.
My College which is the smallest of 3 has over 28,000 students
I’m dean of a post graduate centre which has 5000+ students
Professors here are paid $150,000 a year as a basic and they can earn more depending on what managerial type roles they take on.
The Vice chancellor earns just under $1 million per year plus bonus
This in the world wide Academic community is not unusual.
In the UK however good salaries paid to some excellent academics is not very common and when published invites all kind of judgements and comparisons being made
It has been estimated that my institution contributes over $5 billion dollars to the economy of Australia per year. And in addition provides employment for thousands of support type roles which do not require any high level qualifications.
It’s a different game altogether
This is just the taxpayers alliance doing their usual stirring.