Adjunct foreign language professor pay per course
From real foreign language adjunct and lecturer postings across U.S. colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · foreign language
- $3,088
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $1,185 – $5,850
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $861 – $13,575
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 69
Based on 138 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Highest-paying institutions
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay foreign language listings.
- University of Arizona$13,500n=6
- University of California-Riverside$9,227n=3
- Augsburg University$6,475n=3
- Loyola University Maryland$4,500n=4
- University of the Incarnate Word$3,300n=4
- Perimeter College$3,075n=3
- South Louisiana Community College$2,500n=3
- Broward College$2,491n=12
- Northeastern University$1,185n=10
- City University of Seattle$1,000n=4
- City Colleges of Chicago$943n=5
- Cuyahoga Community College$942n=8
By state
States with at least five disclosed-pay foreign language listings.
- Arizona$13,500n=8
- California$9,227n=13
- New York$7,764n=6
- Minnesota$6,475n=5
- Maryland$4,500n=5
- Texas$3,100n=10
- Florida$2,491n=13
- Massachusetts$2,443n=20
- New Jersey$1,725n=8
- Washington$1,000n=6
- Illinois$947n=12
- Ohio$942n=8
Twelve-month trend
$4,160Nov 2025
$4,500Dec 2025
$1,646Jan 2026
$3,201Feb 2026
$9,160Mar 2026
$14,523Apr 2026
$942May 2026
$5,488Jun 2026
$3,088Jul 2026
$4,600Aug 2026
$1,294Sep 2026
$3,500Oct 2026
$1,972Nov 2026
Median per-course pay of listings posted each month.
What the median means per year
Adjuncts are paid per course, so annual income depends on load. At $3,088 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $12,352
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $18,528
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $37,056
Before tax, no benefits. Most institutions cap adjuncts below the load that would trigger benefits eligibility.
Frequently asked questions
- How much do adjunct foreign language professors make per course?
- Across 138 foreign language adjunct postings that disclose pay, the median is $3,088 per course; the middle half of listings fall between $1,185 and $5,850.
- Do online adjunct foreign language jobs pay less?
- Online foreign language listings show a median of $2,850 per course against $3,088 overall (from 6 online postings with disclosed pay). Institutions usually pay online and in-person sections at the same rate; the gap reflects which institutions hire online.
- What would that be per year?
- At the $3,088 median, three courses a term over two terms is about $18,528 before tax, with no benefits. Loads are usually capped below the level that would trigger benefits eligibility.
Where these numbers come from
- Every figure is computed from adjunct, lecturer, and part-time faculty postings that OpenLecture tracks across 4,000+ U.S. institutions, refreshed daily. Closed listings stay in the sample, so the picture covers roughly the past year.
- Only postings that state a per-course amount are compared. Hourly and annual quotes are reported separately and never converted.
- Where a range is posted, the top of the range is used. Figures below $500 or above $25,000 per course are excluded as mislabelled periods.
- Medians are shown, not averages, so a handful of outliers cannot move them. Pages with fewer than 25 disclosed-pay listings carry a warning.
- Roughly a quarter of adjunct postings disclose pay at all; these numbers describe the institutions that do.