"Earnings for college faculty vary according to rank and type of institution, geographic area, and field. According to a 2006-07 survey by the American Association of University Professors, salaries for full-time faculty averaged $73,207. By rank, the average was $98,974 for professors, $69,911 for associate professors, $58,662 for assistant professors, $42,609 for instructors, and $48,289 for lecturers"

Copypasta from: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm

I assume by "professors" they mean tenured professors since they specify associate professors next. So if he means full-time, tenured professors he is wrong on the average but not ridiculously wrong. Going by this data, a little less than half of them make over 100k a year. Which is around what I would have guessed, I know plenty who do. This includes liberal/fine arts, etc. professors who make less than those in medicine, law, engineering, business, etc. Dang, I have got to get me some tenure up in this piece.

Hooray science!

Posted at May 14, 2008 1:05 PM in response to Poll: McCain Beats Obama And Hillary By Equal Margin Among Working Class Whites

A lot of Obama supporters seem to oppose the idea but I think it would be pretty classy for Obama's campaign to retire HRC's debt sans her personal loans. On the point of retiring her debts we are in complete agreement.

Posted at May 14, 2008 2:18 AM in response to Happy Hour Reading

Wait, the Democratic candidate is leading in rural areas while the Republican candidate is leading in suburban (and it seemed to imply urban as well) areas? What?

Mississippi is more strange than I remember it.

Posted at May 13, 2008 5:06 PM in response to All Eyes On Mississippi House Race Tonight

"Is Bush Trying to Fix McCain's FEC Problem?" That's what the link on TPM to this article said.

It's a hilarious question! Yes.

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:10 PM in response to Today's Must Read

As a scientist I am always outraged when politicians challenge our interpretation of scientific data. As if your law degree qualifies you to do proper statistical analysis and data gathering. Kiss my a**. If it weren't so tragic the fact that the Vice President is going after endangered whales would actually be pretty hilarious. What a sociopath.

Posted at April 30, 2008 2:21 PM in response to Cheney's Office: (Do Not) Save The Whales

Olympia Snowe ought to just switch parties. She has seemed like one of the good guys (gals) for quite some time.

Posted at April 29, 2008 2:06 PM in response to Dems to Push Again to Limit Interrogation Techniques

It would be nice if the federal government really supported our troops as much as we citizens are always told to, and do.

Posted at April 29, 2008 2:03 PM in response to The Daily Muck

"Barack Obama posting a very slight lead within the margin of error: Obama 41%, Clinton 38%.vThis shows a statistical dead heath"

That's high quality reporting, love it, thank you.

Posted at April 25, 2008 10:36 AM in response to Another Poll Shows Close Race In Indiana

I'd love to see him in jail but if she promised to do it, well, that seems like politicizing the DoJ again. Once we hold both houses of congress and the presidency we will have to be very careful not to become what we have found to be so despicable for the past 8 years.

Posted at April 23, 2008 7:18 PM in response to Survey: Half of EPA Scientists Complain of Political Interference, Waxman to Investigate

I feel like they mostly just think I'm weird or crazy. When it comes to TV, I'm okay with that.

Posted at April 22, 2008 10:16 PM in response to Hillary Wins Pennsylvania, Networks Project