Adjunct professor pay in Virginia, per course
From real adjunct and lecturer postings at Virginia colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · Virginia
- $5,358
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $3,279 – $8,650
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $776 – $9,213
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 9
Based on 36 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Highest-paying institutions in Virginia
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay listings.
- Virginia Commonwealth University$8,650n=17
- University of Virginia$6,000n=3
- Radford University$5,775n=6
- Marymount University$2,880n=4
By discipline
Disciplines with at least five disclosed-pay listings in Virginia.
- Business & Management$8,650n=11
- Health Sciences & Nursing$5,625n=6
Twelve-month trend
$2,316Feb 2026
$2,288Mar 2026
$3,885May 2026
$4,098Jun 2026
$2,160Jul 2026
$10,000Aug 2026
$2,967Sep 2026
$1,300Oct 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 $5,358 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $21,432
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $32,148
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $64,296
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.