<p>I can tell you one thing, most of the tenured professors (I believe this is based on stats released a few years ago) make about 170k per year. UChicago is one of the top paying universities, other than Yale, Harvard and Princeton. That being said…They’re paid to do their job, and they do it well. Can’t speak from personal experience -YET- , but I’ve heard only good things, and that’s one of the reasons why I love Chicago. The professors live right around in Hyde Park neighborhood, and supposedly they’re always out walking their dogs or what have you. So I’m sure they might even invite you home for dinner to talk about a paper or something (Seems to be the norm with college life, though I’d be a bit frightened if one of my highschool teachers asked me the same :p)</p>