(We plan to make additional stories about faculty compensation at various law schools across the state; we don`t intend to single out UVA. If you have any information or opinions you would like to share, feel free to email or text us (646-820-8477). And another fact: law professors are among the graduates employed by the law school. Given the legal state of the labour market in 2013, this is a good thing. Among the schools that did not respond to the SALT survey (PDF) are those that hold the top five U.S. news rankings: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and Chicago. If you have a problem with well-paid law professors, don`t go to law school. The remuneration of law schools depends on what the market will bring, and as long as thousands of students go to law school each year, professors will have to be paid to teach them. AVC`s academic journal, Cavalier Daily, recently published information on faculty salaries in 2012-2013 received under the Freedom of Information Act. You can access the full table here.
The list of law schools begins on page 10. UC Hastings is ranked 48th by U.S. News. Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Florida pay slightly less, despite higher rankings. Rutgers-Newark, ranked 86th by U.S. News, pays his tenured faculty $186,000, the second-highest average salary among survey respondents. Southern Illinois paid its tenured faculty the least among survey respondents, a median base salary of $115,308. Ancillary benefits were not included in the totals. There are 110 people registered as law schools. It should be noted that this number goes beyond permanent or tenure-track faculty; It also includes clinical professors, librarians, scholars-in-residence and other positions.
Here are some highlights: UC Hastings paid its hired law professors the highest median salary among 68 schools that responded to a survey by the Society of American Law Teachers. UC Hastings paid an average base salary of $187,221 to its permanent professionals. TaxProf Blog presented the results of the responding schools in the top 102 of the US news rankings. To be fair to UVA, this only came about because of the recent Cavalier Daily article that people emailed to us. As a rule, you can find information about the salaries of law professors at state universities online. To access compensation databases from other public law schools, read the links at the end of this post. Law professors such as Paul Caron and Dan Filler have discussed at length the issue of compensation from law schools to public law schools, and we have written about it before (e.g., here and here). What are the secrets to AVC`s success as a law school? On the one hand, they have an incredible faculty, full of eminent scholars and inspiring teachers. Berkeley`s data is comprehensive, it includes the full 12-month packages, including summer salary, housing pay, special scholarships, everything. UVA salary data does not include various supplements (especially from private sources), which vary by faculty.
We write so many positive things about UVA Law School that we could be the school`s publicists. We awarded UVA the highest honors in our Southern Law School rankings based on readers` responses to the ATL Insider Survey. We praised AVC`s innovative Public Service Scholarships for recent graduates. We noted that AVC is a leading law school for government and public service jobs, as well as for prestigious court internships, particularly Supreme Court articling positions. Meanwhile, Above the Law released salary figures from several elite schools that did not respond to the SALT survey, including Virginia, Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley. Do you know who you shouldn`t blame [for the high cost of law school]? Faculty of Law. That`s true – they might get chic new buildings and earn six-figure salaries, but it`s not really their fault that the cost of legal education has exceeded their value. Who among us wouldn`t take more money and more benefits for our same work? Thanks to this source for the information. No matter how you cut it, law professors at top law schools do very well.