Adjunct professor pay in New Jersey, per course
From real adjunct and lecturer postings at New Jersey colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · New Jersey
- $2,225
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $1,002 – $4,215
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $936 – $8,331
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 16
Based on 90 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Community colleges in New Jersey: median $1,174 per course (n=14); all institutions: $2,225.
Highest-paying institutions in New Jersey
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay listings.
- Stevens Institute of Technology$9,400n=3
- Rider University$4,215n=18
- Caldwell University$2,505n=9
- Rowan University$2,225n=3
- Raritan Valley Community College$1,174n=13
- Saint Peter's University$975n=4
- Ocean County College$950n=17
By discipline
Disciplines with at least five disclosed-pay listings in New Jersey.
- Education & Teaching$4,215n=5
- Business & Management$4,215n=7
- Biology & Life Sciences$3,360n=6
- World Languages$1,725n=8
- Health Sciences & Nursing$1,250n=5
- English & Writing$1,174n=9
- Music & Performing Arts$1,062n=6
- Communications & Media$1,000n=5
Twelve-month trend
$1,090Oct 2025
$8,850Nov 2025
$1,174Dec 2025
$2,500Jan 2026
$4,215Apr 2026
$1,174May 2026
$1,225Jun 2026
$2,505Jul 2026
$4,215Aug 2026
$3,900Sep 2026
$2,720Oct 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 $2,225 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $8,900
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $13,350
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $26,700
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.