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
- $3,200
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $2,700 – $3,500
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $1,560 – $4,500
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 13
Based on 120 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=22
- University of the Incarnate Word$3,500n=17
- University of North Texas System$3,500n=17
- Paul Quinn College$2,800n=3
- Sul Ross State University$2,700n=22
- Hill College$1,560n=19
- North Central Texas College$680n=3
By discipline
Disciplines with at least five disclosed-pay listings in Texas.
- Business & Management$4,500n=7
- Communications & Media$3,350n=8
- Political Science$3,200n=5
- Health Sciences & Nursing$3,200n=9
- Psychology$3,150n=6
- History$3,100n=5
- English & Writing$2,850n=6
- Mathematics & Statistics$2,800n=6
Twelve-month trend
$4,000Jun 2026
$2,900Jul 2026
$3,500Aug 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 $3,200 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $12,800
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $19,200
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $38,400
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.