Most tenured professors in Canada have salaries well above the $100,000 mark, according to the latest figures, covering pay data for 2007-8, from Statistics Canada. The highest-paid professors are at the University of Toronto, where they earn more than $150,000; closely following them are professors at the Universities of Calgary and of British Columbia. Canadian faculty members are highly unionized and have the highest starting salaries among academics in the world, exceeding pay scales for faculty members at American colleges and universities.
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5 Responses to Professors in Canada Continue to Get Big Bucks
johnkelly - May 6, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Nice story Mairin, we need you back here in IrelandJohn Kelly
dialecticon - May 7, 2010 at 5:43 am
I am very happy to hear the professors at my Alma Mater are the highest paid. I studied Classics/German and Philosophy there and consider myself very privileged to have learned with them. They were exceptional and merit the monetary recognition they are receiving. Good work!
rossemmett - May 7, 2010 at 8:51 am
There are several fundamental problems with the report about Cdn. university salaries.1) It compares avg. salaries in the Cdn. university setting, where the quality, size and purpose of educational institutions varies little across the country, with avg. salaries in the US, which has much more variation. Narrow the US comparison group (say, to 2 or 3 leading public institutions in each state) and the difference becomes much smaller.2) It does not take into account the history of exchange rate variations. A CDN$100,000 salary looked a lot different 8 years ago (when it’s US$ value would have been about $63,000) than it does today.3) It does not account for the range of salaries in US institutions, esp. US institutions of comparable quality, compared to that of the Cdn. universities.
mubbs - May 7, 2010 at 10:17 am
Actually, there isn’t really any “fundamental problems” with these numbers. I am from Canada and even with the rise of the Canadian dollar in recent years, the point the article makes is valid: one hundred grand a year is a very good salary in Canada. Also, please remember health care is free in Canada. If your spouse made even 30 or 40 grand a year you both would be very comfortable.
11126724 - May 9, 2010 at 10:38 am
Just shows what happens in a country that actually values higher education and is willing to pay for what it gets. Having been there, done that, I can tell you even being a student confers high status on a person in Canada (not to mention most of Europe and Asia). The only problem with the comparison is that the culture of the US fails to appreciate how great is the contribution to the economy AND social well being made by faculty in all disciplines. Imagine a country where compensation is commensurate with contribution to society! I understand police and fire personnel are also comparatively well paid there. Imagine!