Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Since you guys all have some knowledge about this...
Last night I was asked to consider a full time faculty position at the community college. It's a 10 month position and would pay around $40k, and it would start in Fall 2007. Is that good, bad, or average? I have no idea about this. I'd be teaching GIS, geography and some lower level math classes. I do not think I will go after it at this point; JMT is a few years away from the ESOP being complete and I really want to suck all the retirement money I can out of that, but I do want a job like this in the future (maybe 5 years from now??) so I need to understand how it all works. Do you guys have any input, comments, thoughts?
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Julie, the salary is comparable to the 9-month salaries Daniel and I started with at Virginia Tech -- Daniel's was tenure-track and he had a PhD, so it was a bit higher, but not dramatically so. So I think the money is reasonable. I assume since it is a 10 month salary you'd be able to supplement with summer classes? That can make a big difference. Our Dad often worked a heavy load for one summer term then took the other term off, which gave him some nice long vacations but he still had a full year's salary.
Very cool that they've offered it to you! Congrats!
I don't have much of a sense of what the faculty salaries are here (I only see contractual and administrative salaries) but that seems about right, maybe a bit on the low end of average. OTOH, working at a college is a great gig--you couldn't ask for better hours and benefits and the working atmosphere (at least here) is the best I've seen. I want to stay here until I retire--just having that week after Christmas and the week around Easter off each year makes it all worthwhile!
What an exciting, and flattering, offer. Even if you don't except it - it is great that they WANT you full time. How nice for you - and then you can definintely do the NEH grant study trips like Katie did this summer. 8-)
Oh - Check Salary.com too for a salary range for that type of position. It may not be an exact source, but it is still a useful one.
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