wowmom - I live in a major city with several universities. Our school districts seem to reward the teachers with advanced degrees much more than the universities. I googled our school district payscales and they seem to be starting at 52k (can’t see any degrees). I know for a fact that my kids high school music teacher, only one with a doctorate (referred to as the only doctor in the entire school with 200+ faculty), retired a few years ago making more than 125k. Local universities dont pay music faculty anywhere close to that as far as I know unless they are endowed faculty.