I graduated from Virginia Tech in 1992 and I’ve been working full-time since then. I received a Master’s in 1996 from North Carolina Central University. I’m a librarian and faculty member who has worked at the same institution since 1997. We are a union shop.
After getting over the sticker shock of University of Virginia’s Ted Genoways, I located this database which divulges the pay at public Virginia universities and a few out-of-state ones. Let me be clear, Genoways’ $134,000 annual salary is obscene. No editor of a literary journal deserves that.
Is it fair that most of my professors from Virginia Tech currently earn less than I do, twenty years after I was there? Certainly, cost-of-living is cheaper in Blacksburg, VA than Portland, OR, but the disparity of time, years in the profession, etc. I just find it all depressing.
My supervisor in the library at Tech earned less than $40,000 in 2009. I was her student worker from 90-92. She’s been there for nearly thirty years. Granted, she doesn’t have a Master’s Degree, but why does she make so little after so many years? Is what she does worth $100,000 less than producing a quarterly journal?
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