Rizhao seaside, professor’s garden”, at the recently opened Beijing Autumn Housing Show, a real estate development company from Rizhao City, Shandong Province targeted teachers from various universities in Beijing to sell sea-view houses.
A Beijing media reported in August this year that in the coastal city of Rizhao, nearly 400 Beijingers have bought houses in the local "Professor Garden" community, and 90% of them are professors of Peking University.
It is reported that. A real estate company from a coastal city participating in the exhibition will also set up a shuttle bus at Peking University during the National Day to pick up and drop off teachers who want to view properties for free.
Just when some university teachers are rich enough to buy properties in other places, they will. One of my colleagues, A Yi, claimed on the Internet that he could not make ends meet with his salary alone. For a time, the salary issue of university teachers became the focus of the media and the public.
Most young teachers have low academic qualifications. A lecturer and teaching assistant, living on a basic salary of only one to two thousand yuan a month
In June this year, Liu Yicheng (pseudonym), a young teacher in the Department of Journalism at Nanchang University in Jiangxi Province, will graduate the first class of students. , some very thoughtful class leaders in the class wanted to surprise the teacher and knocked on Liu Yicheng's door with gifts without saying hello. Liu Yicheng embarrassedly let the students into the room, and there was not even a chair in the house.
Liu Yicheng, who has been renting a house, lives very close to the school and likes to get along with students, but he rarely tells others his address because the house is in poor condition, has no furniture, and is not easy to entertain people when they come.
After Liu Yicheng graduated with a master's degree, he went to this unfamiliar city to find a job and became a teaching assistant in this provincial university, teaching journalism theory. At that time, the school did not have dormitories for teachers and staff. He had no choice but to rent a farmer's house in a student rental area outside the school. At this time, his monthly income averaged only a little over 2,000. After excluding living expenses, he had to send some money to his family, so the money he saved in a year was very limited. .
Although the teaching job is relatively stable, the income gap in the industry has stimulated Liu Yicheng. In order to get a professional title as soon as possible, he saved money to prepare for the Ph.D. exam. "If I don't have a house, starting a family will be a problem." "Liu Yicheng, who is nearly 30 years old, is not satisfied with his current income.
Feng Chen (pseudonym), a lecturer at the school, accepted a "College Teacher Satisfaction" survey in Jiangxi Province last year. In terms of salary, compensation and subsidies, House purchase, training opportunities, and employment and promotion titles were all marked as “unsatisfactory.”
“Many people think that college teachers have easy jobs and high incomes, but in fact they only see the lives of most professors and associate professors. "Teacher Feng said that at the professor level, teachers' salaries can indeed reach very high, and they can also make money through part-time jobs outside the school. However, most young teachers and low-educated lecturers and teaching assistants form the bottom of the income pyramid for university teachers. At the end of the day, these people only live on a basic salary of one to two thousand yuan a month.
After the State Administration of Taxation classified college teachers as "high-income individuals," Professor Liu Huanbin, the former president of South China University of Technology, told the media. , if an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan is considered a high-income earner, then the proportion of real high-income earners among college teachers is less than 5% in colleges and universities in the central and western regions.
Some teachers are very secretive about their income status. Part-time jobs have become their main job, and teaching has been reduced to a side job
A Yi, an associate professor at Peking University, posted on the Internet that the average monthly salary he calculated is 4,876 yuan. After deducting various living expenses, it turned out to be a negative number. In this regard, an associate professor at the School of Journalism of Renmin University of China said that the income of college teachers is very fragmented, and the salary slip is only a superficial layer and cannot explain the true income of employees.
This associate professor takes himself as an example. He actually transfers 2,500 to 3,000 yuan to his salary card every month. This amount is closely related to his working years and professional title. In addition, every month, the college pays 2,500 to 3,000 yuan. The college will give a fixed amount of money, which is equivalent to 30% of the basic salary, about three to four hundred yuan. Since the college will hold some training courses for candidates, the college can generate income from it, which will also give each faculty member about 300 yuan per month. Send 1,000 yuan.
In addition to the subsidy and class fees for supervising graduate students' thesis, he gets at least more than 4,000 yuan a month, not counting the income outside work. The associate professor has also been working part-time in the media, writing a weekly column for a newspaper, earning an additional monthly income of about 3,000 yuan.
During the interview, although most college teachers were secretive when asked about their income status, through investigation, the author found that there are many college teachers who work part-time or work on projects outside the home, which gives them a A lot of gray income.
Recently, at a seminar held by China University of Political Science and Law, the author learned that a top expert in the legal field who participated in the forum was paid as much as 7,000 yuan. According to insiders, well-known experts from universities and colleges receive compensation for participating in academic seminars, which has become an important source of "grey income" for experts.
Last year, during the debate about the "conscience of economists," some media reported: "The annual income of first-class economists in Beijing exceeds one million yuan, and the annual income of second-class economists is 600,000 yuan. These economists An important source of income is serving as an independent director in a listed company. Among this list are professors such as Xiao Zhuoji, Wei Jie, Zhang Weiying, and Wu Xiaoqiu who are still teaching in universities. "
Compared with earning extra money through part-time jobs. For college teachers, most of the real rich people in the ivory tower made their fortune by teaching in training classes and investing in technical shares of research groups to run companies.
A law school professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics discovered that due to the "postgraduate entrance examination fever" and "certification examination fever" in recent years, many professors from the School of Marxism and the School of Foreign Languages ??have joined the postgraduate entrance examination in politics or English as famous teachers. Some professors at law schools earn large sums of money by holding training courses for the Judicial Qualification Examination and the Master of Laws Examination. Many professors in the law school where this professor works have become wealthy as a result.
In August this year, the Haidian Gymnasium, which can accommodate 3,000 spectators, was packed, and the Qihang Training School’s summer political intensive class was being held. Teachers from Peking University, Renmin University of China, Central University of Finance and Economics and other universities are cooperating with Qihang Training School to teach.
The postgraduate entrance examination market has expanded rapidly in recent years, and teachers from many prestigious schools have targeted this opportunity to make money. At Qihang Training School, taking the postgraduate entrance examination political class as an example, each student has to pay a training fee of more than 500 yuan for the one-week course, and thousands of students sign up for each session. Since professors' remuneration is drawn from the training fees of thousands of students, the more students there are, the greater the commission, and the teachers will naturally benefit a lot from it.
Yuan Ming (pseudonym), a professor at the School of Journalism at Renmin University of China, said that university teachers are more qualified to work part-time outside because of the small amount of classes and more free time during holidays and weekends, and the school does not explicitly prohibit it. But when part-time teachers take up too much energy, the impact on their teaching cannot be ignored. "When a professor's 'extra money' becomes two or three times his salary, he will involuntarily turn to part-time work, and his main job of teaching and educating people will become a side job."
Professor Yuan said that in the first two years of his life, He worked part-time as a programmer at a TV station with a monthly salary of more than 5,000 yuan. At that time, he had to attend two topic selection meetings a week and had to take turns on duty. When he found out that the job was no longer part-time and required almost full-time, he immediately quit the job. Work. "Spurred by the income gap, many young teachers are finding ways to work part-time to make money. If this practice becomes popular, the quality of education in colleges and universities will inevitably be affected."
An associate professor in the Chinese Department of Peking University believes that low wages Depending on your income, part-time work is reasonable. A worker who makes sofas for his neighbors after get off work has nothing to do with his formal job. The income is not income brought by the university and has nothing to do with the university. However, according to his understanding, teachers at Peking University do not have that much time to do these things.
Majors that have more connections with society can make more money
Kong Qingdong, associate professor of the Chinese Department of Peking University, said when talking about the income gap among college teachers: “Majors with more connections with society It may be more profitable, but the total resources of society are limited. There is no statistics on how many rich teachers there are and what proportion they account for. I feel that most of the teachers in the school are poor, such as those in ancient Chinese and religious subjects. Teachers are the majority.
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The difference in the social applicability of the subject determines the difference in the income of teachers in this subject.
Zheng Yefu, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Peking University, said that economics, Management teachers earn a lot of money. In addition to completing the teaching tasks in the department, they also work overtime for companies. Some of them also make money by giving lessons to informally registered students. “I know that teachers in some subjects can earn close to 100 yuan a year. Ten thousand yuan. In fact, many departments attach great importance to making money, but some subjects are more exposed to society and can make more money. It’s not that other departments don’t want to, it’s that they can’t. ”
Professor Wu from Beijing Institute of Technology said: “At present, there is a big gap in the salary income of teachers between prestigious schools and non-prestigious schools, and there is also a huge gap in the salary income of teachers in different colleges of the same school. "For example, Renmin University of China, as a liberal arts university, has lower salaries and job allowances for teachers compared with science and engineering colleges.
"In science and engineering colleges with many scientific research projects, teachers' salaries Among the income, project funding accounts for a large proportion. "Professor Wu said that the amount of scientific research funding of Beijing Institute of Technology ranks among the top three among Beijing universities, and sometimes the scientific research funding for a single topic is as high as tens of millions of yuan.
"In recent years, teachers from science and engineering colleges have The average income in China is rising, with many professors earning more than 300,000 yuan a year. In contrast, most professors in liberal arts colleges earn less than 100,000 yuan a year. "Professor Wu mentioned.
Since the late 1980s, in order to promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, many university professors have been actively looking for topics, running projects, and asking for funds. Because some project funds can be relatively free In addition, many teachers in science and engineering departments work as part-time engineers in some companies, or work on patented inventions, start companies to promote technology, etc., and earn a lot of income. It’s also very impressive.
“Some people can earn 1 million yuan by doing projects for more than ten years, with an average income of 100,000 yuan or 80,000 yuan per year. "Zheng Yefu, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Peking University, told reporters.
He revealed that many professors constantly treat guests to dinner in order to promote projects. This is a common phenomenon in universities, and many teachers have applied for However, the projects are provided to students at a low cost, and "taxpayers' money is wasted."
The differences in the revenue-generating capabilities of various departments within the school lead to a large gap in the amount of bonuses distributed between departments
It is understood that different departments in universities have their own methods of generating income.
For example, the humanities college of a university in Beijing recruits a certain number of students for independent examinations every year, mostly in Beijing. For those who have worked and participated in the examinations organized by the college and entered the school, because they are not enrolled in the national plan, the college will charge a training fee that is much higher than the unified enrollment. Part of this extra amount will be distributed to the teaching teachers in the name of lecture fees. .
Professor Wang Chuhui from the Department of Sociology of Nankai University once conducted a detailed investigation and study on the income of college teachers in the article "How much do college teachers earn?" He pointed out that subjects with greater direct demand from society and the market. , it is easier to run classes, so there are more classes, the number of students is large, and the amount of revenue generated is also large. The school has clear regulations on how to divide the income generated by running schools. Different types of schools have different ratios. Generally speaking, the school's fees are between 45% and 55%, and part of it belongs to the directly revenue-generating departments, and is divided into development fees and collective fees according to the proportion specified by the school. There are three parts: welfare fees and bonuses. Of course, development fees must be used to improve school running conditions, while bonuses are distributed by direct income-generating units to faculty and staff according to each unit's own regulations as part of departmental bonuses and collective welfare fees. It is also used to improve the welfare benefits of the faculty and staff of the unit, a considerable part of which is given in kind to the faculty and staff of the unit. This has become an important factor in the gap in income and actual welfare benefits between different departments in the school.
According to his investigation, the differences in the income-generating capabilities of various departments within the school have resulted in a large gap in the amount of bonuses issued between departments. Departments that generate more revenue can receive up to three or four bonuses per capita per year in their units. Ten thousand yuan, while some departments are unable to pay bonuses to their faculty and staff.
There are also some department leaders who have no way to generate income, in order to appease the public, they have to patch up a few hundred yuan bonus to each faculty member at the end of the year. In short, the difference in bonus income between faculty and staff in various departments is large, which ultimately leads to a gap in economic income between faculty and staff working in the same school.
Peking University Professor Liu Xinzhi happily received the golden key to move into Rizhao Peking University Professor Garden from Rizhao Mayor Li Zhaoqian (Source: Beijing Youth Daily)