Adjunct professor pay in Ohio, per course
From real adjunct and lecturer postings at Ohio colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · Ohio
- $942
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $942 – $942
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $942 – $951
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 3
Based on 105 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Community colleges in Ohio: median $942 per course (n=103); all institutions: $942.
Highest-paying institutions in Ohio
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay listings.
- Cuyahoga Community College$942n=103
By discipline
Disciplines with at least five disclosed-pay listings in Ohio.
- Computer Science & IT$947n=6
- Communications & Media$942n=5
- Business & Management$942n=9
- Health Sciences & Nursing$942n=24
- Social Work$942n=5
- World Languages$942n=8
- Engineering$942n=5
Twelve-month trend
$1,075Jul 2026
$951Aug 2026
$942Sep 2026
$947Oct 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 $942 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $3,768
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $5,652
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $11,304
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.