What to Expect for Pay
Hello! I am currently a full-time lecturer and about one year from graduating with my PhD. I want to get a tenure-track role soon after I graduate. I have strong teaching experience, service experience, and publishing records.
My question stems from the fact that my current university (that I love) probably will not have any TT position open when I graduate, so I am considering looking at other universities. But I have a really good gig so I want to know how what I could get elsewhere compares to what I have now.
Current situation:
- Lecturer position
- Business school
- Teaching institution
- 4/4 teaching requirement (Fall/Spring)
- $85,000 base salary
- Option to teach overload, which I take one class a semester (this pushes me to $105k annually)
- 15% retirement contribution on top of my salary (pushes me to about $120k annually)
- Complete control of my schedule and modality (what days, times, and modalities I teach)
- No service or scholarship expectation (but I do it anyway because I enjoy it)
- Medium COL area
- High job security despite annual contract (never had layoffs and only terminate contracts for poor performance)
So I guess my question is how likely would it be that I would find a TT position that is better than my current situation regarding pay, flexibility, and work life balance?
EDIT: I am currently in the US and would be open to looking anywhere in the US or Canada (I am als a Canadian citizen).