Timeline for How do university professors earn money beyond their salary?
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| Jun 22, 2023 at 15:36 | comment | added | RLH | @IanSudbery: My appointment (as with, I believe, most US tenure-line appointments) gives me a salary of $X per year, which is accounted for as $X/9 per month for 9 months, and 0/month for 3 months. If I bring in a government or corporate grant, part of that budget can be used to pay myself at the same per-month rate as my primary appointment, meaning that I can raise my salary up to a threshold of $4X/3 via such grants. | |
| Aug 12, 2021 at 3:58 | comment | added | Terry Loring | It does not go directly. It flows from the government to the university and sometimes into a bit of extra salary. There is friction in the form of overhead and other things, but indeed one can increase one's salary from a government grant, in the US. | |
| Aug 11, 2021 at 11:57 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | This is the UK. But is it really the case anywhere that money goes directly from the government into the pocket of the academic without going via the university? My grants support my salary, but they don't enhance it. I don't get a higher salary if I get more grants (other than being more likely to get promotion). | |
| Aug 11, 2021 at 4:05 | comment | added | Terry Loring | Many of us get some income from a government grant. Perhaps you can qualify this by country? | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 8:56 | history | answered | Ian Sudbery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |