Adjunct professor pay in New York, per course
From real adjunct and lecturer postings at New York colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · New York
- $5,500
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $4,750 – $6,284
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $3,100 – $14,000
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 17
Based on 75 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Highest-paying institutions in New York
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay listings.
- Barnard College$14,000n=4
- Sarah Lawrence College$13,500n=4
- Syracuse University$9,000n=7
- Yeshiva University$8,000n=4
- St. John's University$7,135n=4
- SUNY Brockport$5,500n=19
- State University of New York at Cortland$5,500n=13
- Mount Saint Mary College$3,300n=3
- St. Thomas Aquinas College$3,100n=6
By discipline
Disciplines with at least five disclosed-pay listings in New York.
- Health Sciences & Nursing$5,270n=8
Twelve-month trend
$7,823Jun 2026
$5,500Jul 2026
$5,500Aug 2026
$4,000Sep 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 $5,500 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $22,000
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $33,000
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $66,000
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.