Adjunct nursing professor pay per course
From real nursing adjunct and lecturer postings across U.S. colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · nursing
- $4,700
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $3,038 – $6,356
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $1,460 – $7,210
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 37
Based on 67 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Highest-paying institutions
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay nursing listings.
- University of New Hampshire$7,500n=3
- Augsburg University$6,475n=5
- Edmonds College$6,387n=4
- SUNY Brockport$5,500n=4
- Excelsior University$5,000n=5
- Springfield College$3,513n=4
- Rize Education$3,000n=4
- Broward College$2,656n=3
By state
States with at least five disclosed-pay nursing listings.
- Minnesota$6,475n=8
- New York$5,270n=8
- Massachusetts$3,513n=10
- Illinois$3,500n=5
- Texas$3,200n=9
Twelve-month trend
$4,000Jun 2026
$5,000Jul 2026
$3,357Aug 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 $4,700 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $18,800
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $28,200
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $56,400
Before tax, no benefits. Most institutions cap adjuncts below the load that would trigger benefits eligibility.
Frequently asked questions
- How much do adjunct nursing professors make per course?
- Across 67 nursing adjunct postings that disclose pay, the median is $4,700 per course; the middle half of listings fall between $3,038 and $6,356.
- Do online adjunct nursing jobs pay less?
- Online nursing listings show a median of $3,000 per course against $4,700 overall (from 7 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 $4,700 median, three courses a term over two terms is about $28,200 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.