local pay for adjuncts

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Hi all--

I'm going to be interviewing for adjunct teaching jobs. I am very new to Massachusetts, so I have no idea what to expect as far as salary. If anyone here has adjuncted (I'll be in English, btw), can you tell me roughly what you got paid per course?

Down south it seemed to usually be around $3000/course, but I also paid $315/month for a 1-BR apartment there. *rent nostalgia*

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[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

It varies a lot by school, and perhaps subject. I know about computer-based classes. Northeastern is @ $4800/course. Harvard Ext is @ $6800/course; A state school is @ $4200/course. Contact time varies too, depending on whether its grad or undergrad (anywhere from 30 hr/15 weeks to 45 hrs/15 weeks). Also some places provide TAs and some don't.

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Good to know!

[melodiousjoy.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm a southern transplant too. Where are you from?

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Neat!

Mostly Virginia, but I came here after grad school in Alabama. And you?

[melodiousjoy.livejournal.com]

I lived in Virginia my entire life until last year!

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Yeah? Which part? I'm from southwest VA, though I haven't lived there full-time since 2002.

[melodiousjoy.livejournal.com]

I came from Blacksburg.

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

OMG, me too!

I'm sending you a message now. :)

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

You're not the one from Bristol, who knows the doctor friend of mine from Kentucky? (I think we crossed paths at a Brown School Open House) Shoot me an email.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

$315/month????

*weep*

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

And all the cockroaches you could kill!

(That part of the south I don't miss so much.)

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

That's what happens when you keep slavery in the form of lots of minimum-wage jobs. Trust me, you get what you pay for.

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Good to know there's that big of range. I'll keep my fingers crossed I get something at one of the better-paying schools.

And good luck on the creative writing PhD! I have my MFA in creative writing and have been thinking about the PhD, but I'm goign to stick to the real world a little bit longer. Which program are you entering?

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

I'm poetry too! I just finished at Alabama!

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Cool! I've heard good things about Florida's program too.

I've only spotted one of my classmates on the Speakeasies so far, unfortunately.

[nuns.livejournal.com]

UMass Lowell was paying $3500/course a couple years ago when I last taught there.

Merrimack College, up in North Andover, pays $2300 I think for the first few semesters, and then you get a raise up to $2600 or so per course. They also have a fifteen student cap on all writing courses, so if you teach two courses there, it's about $4600-$5200 for 30 or fewer students - not too shabby. But you can only get two courses, so you'll want to teach at more than one school if you go that route.

[nuns.livejournal.com]

Oh. but those are both at schools where you teach Comp, and I think they both require an MA in English (as opposed to an MFA in Creative Writing).