Adjunct professor pay in Washington, per course
From real adjunct and lecturer postings at Washington colleges and universities, refreshed daily. Live and recently closed listings both count.
- Median per course · Washington
- $6,387
- Middle half of listings (25th–75th)
- $6,387 – $6,387
- Typical range (5th–95th)
- $2,500 – $6,387
- Institutions disclosing pay
- 3
Based on 71 listings that disclose per-course pay.
Highest-paying institutions in Washington
Median per course among institutions with at least three disclosed-pay listings.
- Edmonds College$6,387n=60
- Pacific Lutheran University$5,400n=5
- City University of Seattle$1,000n=6
By discipline
Disciplines with at least five disclosed-pay listings in Washington.
- Business & Management$6,387n=8
- Education & Teaching$6,387n=8
- Health Sciences & Nursing$6,387n=8
- World Languages$1,000n=6
Twelve-month trend
$6,387Nov 2025
$6,387Dec 2025
$6,387Feb 2026
$4,000Apr 2026
$1,000Jul 2026
$5,980Aug 2026
$6,350Sep 2026
$4,600Oct 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 $6,387 per course:
- 2 courses × 2 terms
- $25,548
- 3 courses × 2 terms
- $38,322
- 4 courses × 3 terms
- $76,644
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.