美国教授能挣多少钱？(2)【沪江慢速VOA12-12】

How much professors can earn in the United States (2/2)

The Chronicle Almanac shows that new assistant professors in foreign language earned forty-eight thousand dollars last year. That was a little more than the national average for all education jobs. But averages do not tell the whole story.

Sally Hadden is an associate professor of history and law at Florida State University in Tallahassee. She notes that language professors generally earn less than those in subjects like engineering, for example. But these days, professors of some languages, including Arabic, can earn much more than Spanish professors. Universities are competing for them with government and industry.

Professor Hadden also notes that colleges in different areas of the country pay different salaries. Some states have strong unions that have negotiated set increases in salaries for professors. And different schools value different skills in their professors. Community and liberal arts colleges generally value good teaching skills more than big research universities do.

Salaries can also be tied to something else -- tenure. More about that next week.

参考译文：

编年史年鉴显示，去年新外语助理教授的年薪是48000美元，仅比全国教育工作的平均工资高出一点。然而平均水平并不能说明一切。

萨利•海登是一名佛罗里达州塔拉哈西州立大学历史学兼法学的副教授，她指出，语言方面的教授一般来说要比其他学科（如工程学）的教授赚得少。但近期某些语言的教授，如阿拉伯语，就比西班牙语教授的薪水要高得多。大学与政府和企业都挣抢这类人才。

海登教授还指出，不同国家，不同地区的学院薪水也有所差异。一些州拥有强大的联盟通过磋商谈判给教授加薪。不同的学校对教授技能的重视程度也有所不同，一般来说，社会学院和文学院比大型的研究大学更重视好的教学技巧。

薪水还可能跟其他东西有联系，如任期。我们下星期继续此话题。

        

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