Skaddenfreude: Some Legal Academic Salaries

In response to our request for information about law school professor salaries — preferably profs at private schools, since salaries of professors at public law schools are often publicly available — we received a few submissions. We’ll share them with you now, in this latest installment of Skaddenfreude: Totally Gauche Ogling of Other Lawyers’ Incomes.
Here you go:

(1) tenure-track law professor at a top 50 law school, “in flyover land,” specializing in tax, class of 1996: $120,000;

(2) associate professor of law, at a law school in a very small city, specializing in property law and business organizations / corporations, class of 1996: $102,000 (includes research stipend), “plus I have dinner with my kids every night — priceless”; and

(3) full professor at a fourth-tier law school, in a very small city, specializing in commercial law, class of 1987: $115,000 (plus an annual summer research stipend of $10,500).

On the subject of hours billed or worked, which Skaddenfreude is always curious about, one of our tipsters had this commentary:

Do you really want to know how hard law professors work? Come on, we’re academics! But seriously, some of us work pretty hard because we like what we do. On the other hand, we are now in our fifth week of classes and I have seen one of my colleagues on campus exactly THREE times (yes, she does come in to teach her classes, but hey, why do anything else for over $100,000 a year?).

We thank these three professors for their submissions. Please follow their example, and contribute to the public store of legal professional salary data, by sending us your compensation information by email (subject line: “Skaddenfreude”). A submission should include all the information listed here.
For our next installment, we’d love to write about how much Biglaw partners, equity or non-equity, take home each year. We don’t know if we’ll be able to obtain such info; but we’ll certainly try. Gracias!
Earlier: Skaddenfreude: Academic Salaries, Please
Skaddenfreude: Private Law School Salaries, Please

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