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What do full economics professors make?
The average full professor of economics has a salary of $135,000, the median is $138,000.
The sample is the top seventeen public universities in the United States. Here are the raw data.
On the other hand, Bill Gates has been earning an estimated $300 a second.
Nonetheless here are some other reasons to become a professional economist.
Thanks to Dan Houser for the pointer on the salaries.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on April 4, 2004 at 07:30 AM in Economics | Permalink
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