<p>The Chronicle of Higher Education lists the pay for all the professorial ranks for each school in the US. The better private schools do pay more for their faculty than that of many public schools. Moreover, public school pay does vary considerably even among the state universities within the same state. For example, pay for the University of Maryland for professors is about 20K more than that of the pay for Towson University,which is also part of the Maryland state university system.</p>
<p>In addition, pay for certain majors such as business, engineering, law and medicine is much higher than the pay for most other disciplines.</p>