Adjunct professor pay in Maryland, per course
From real adjunct and lecturer postings at Maryland colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · Maryland
- $4,500
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $4,000 – $4,500
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $2,376 – $9,472
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 8
Based on 25 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Highest-paying institutions in Maryland
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay listings.
- Johns Hopkins University$10,152n=3
- Loyola University Maryland$4,500n=8
- Bowie State University$4,000n=4
- Frostburg State University$3,000n=5
By discipline
Disciplines with at least five disclosed-pay listings in Maryland.
- World Languages$4,500n=5
- Business & Management$3,500n=5
Twelve-month trend
$5,270Jun 2026
$4,500Jul 2026
$4,500Aug 2026
$4,250Sep 2026
$4,500Oct 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 $4,500 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $18,000
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $27,000
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $54,000
Before tax, no benefits. Most institutions cap adjuncts below the load 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.