Adjunct professor pay in Texas, per course
From real adjunct and lecturer postings at Texas colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · Texas
- $2,850
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $850 – $3,500
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $680 – $4,500
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 16
Based on 260 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Highest-paying institutions in Texas
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay listings.
- Texas A&M University-Texarkana$3,600n=24
- University of the Incarnate Word$3,500n=47
- University of North Texas System$3,500n=31
- Angelo State University$3,230n=4
- Texas A&M University-San Antonio$3,000n=3
- Paul Quinn College$2,800n=3
- Sul Ross State University$2,700n=30
- Hill College$1,560n=19
- Laredo College$850n=47
- Midland College$825n=7
By discipline
Disciplines with at least five disclosed-pay listings in Texas.
- Humanities$4,250n=6
- Social Work$3,500n=5
- Business & Management$3,500n=21
- Communications & Media$3,200n=15
- Education & Teaching$3,200n=9
- Political Science$3,200n=7
- Chemistry$3,200n=6
- Economics$3,150n=8
- World Languages$3,100n=10
- History$3,100n=9
- Health Sciences & Nursing$3,000n=28
- Physics$2,950n=8
- Philosophy & Religion$2,900n=6
- Sociology$2,900n=7
- Biology & Life Sciences$2,900n=9
Twelve-month trend
$850Nov 2025
$850Dec 2025
$1,075Feb 2026
$3,100Mar 2026
$3,500Apr 2026
$3,300May 2026
$3,500Jun 2026
$3,100Jul 2026
$3,100Aug 2026
$3,500Sep 2026
$3,500Oct 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 $2,850 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $11,400
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $17,100
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $34,200
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.