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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 2843591, member: 153"] Administrators is another story. As for academics, your average salary for tenured/tenure-track people at a place like UConn is around $75k (and that's with the $200k outliers). Incoming TT prof ($55k-60k), midcareer post tenure ($75k), full professor $90-100k). If you do the math, and consider when these people start jobs (early 30s), you're better off as a plumber starting at age 18 and averaging $40k throughout your life. Don't go into for the money. As for bloat, there is huge administrative bloat. Administrative costs are up 400% in a decade. But as I said, this is a business school phenomenon foisted on academics who don't like it (obviously the 6 figure salary people like it). Still, these costs account for only 5% of the budget and don't at all explain the massive rise in tuition. If you dropped a neutron bomb that rids the world of administrators, you'd only have a 4% savings in the budget. Considering we spend more money per kindergarten student than colleges spend per student, you can argue the teaching side is highly efficient, especially in the world of adjuncts. The only thing more efficient would be unpaid "interns." Many studies have indeed shown this. [/QUOTE]