Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Chaparrastique]

$US 212 000...
http://www.sporcle.com/games/HelloClairice/universities-highest-salaries

[edwardcatflap]

I bet the average US graduate with 30 grand in debt would enjoy playing that.

[SeoulNate]

Would be more curious to see a list with how much the deans and presidents are making.

While they slash away full time professor jobs they are adding nothing but part timers who work for McDonalds level pay and increasing the tuition students pay. The money has to go somewhere.

[actionjackson]

[radcon]

One word: administration.

"Forty years ago, America’s colleges employed more professors than administrators. The efforts of 446,830 professors were supported by 268,952 administrators and staffers. Over the past four decades, though, the number of full-time professors or “full-time equivalents”—that is, slots filled by two or more part-time faculty members whose combined hours equal those of a full-timer—increased slightly more than 50 percent. That percentage is comparable to the growth in student enrollments during the same time period. But the number of administrators and administrative staffers employed by those schools increased by an astonishing 85 percent and 240 percent, respectively.

Today, administrators and staffers safely outnumber full-time faculty members on campus. In 2005, colleges and universities employed more than 675,000 fulltime faculty members or full-time equivalents. In the same year, America’s colleges and universities employed more than 190,000 individuals classified by the federal government as “executive, administrative and managerial employees.” Another 566,405 college and university employees were classified as “other professional.” This category includes IT specialists, counselors, auditors, accountants, admissions officers, development officers, alumni relations officials, human resources staffers, editors and writers for school publications, attorneys, and a slew of others."
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all

[Shimokitazawa]

Football coaches and presidents.

Both of these positions can pay over a million dollars a year at top US schools.

Academics and research? Not as important as football coaches and football programs.

[joelove]

Here's a totally scientific quiz:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/folio1701/happiest-countries-according-to-north-korea

[Stain]

[JMO]

The reason that football coach's make so much money is twofold.

The football team at big time universities pays for every other sport except basketball. A successful football team increases enrollment rates and tuition fees also.

The second reason is.. who else are you going to pay? You can't pay the players so at some point all the competitive advantage distills into coaching so the cost of good coaching keeps on rising.