The Salary for Full-Time Music Faculty
Music faculty provide musical instruction to college students throughout the country. Music faculty have the dual task of often teaching students about music and music history, along with how to perform music. The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates more than 86,000 music, art and drama faculty members served in colleges and universities nationwide in 2010. Salaries for these professors tend to vary by institution and location.
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Pay Scale
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Music professors nationwide earned an average annual salary of $70,850 per year in 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Salaries for professors in this field generally range from about $33,000 to approximately $121,000 per year, according to the bureau. Those comprising the middle half of the pay scale made salaries ranging from about $45,000 to $85,000 per year, with a reported median salary of $62,000 per year.
Institution Type
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Salaries for full-time music faculty vary based on the type of institution in which the professor teaches. For example, the BLS indicates that music professors in four-year colleges and universities earned an average salary of $71,250 in 2010, while those who taught in junior colleges made an average salary of $72,990. The American Association of University Professors indicates that salaries also differ in public and private institutions. The association notes that professors in public institutions of higher education average about $85,000 per year, whereas those in private non-religious schools averaged about $111,000 per year in the 2008-2009 school year. However, these salaries include all professors and not just music faculty. This does indicate, though, that music faculty can expect to generally make more teaching in private colleges.
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Location
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Location also plays a role in how much full-time music faculty can expect to make. According to the BLS, the highest-paid music faculty members worked in the state of New York, earning an average salary of nearly $100,000 per year, as of 2010. Those employed in California made nearly $96,000 per year, while those in Texas made significantly less at about $63,000 annually. Ohio music professors average almost $65,000 per year, while those in Massachusetts made just over $84,000.
Job Outlook
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Music professors will enjoy above average job growth in the period from 2008 to 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau projects 15 percent job growth for college professors across all academic disciplines during this period of time. The growth of the population will create additional need for college professors to accommodate its educational needs. Music professors play an integral role in the liberal arts education of most college students at some point in their educational career and an even more important role in the education of music majors.
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