Are University Professors overpaid?

[GummyBearz]

11. Depends on whether they have tenure and how much they actually work if they do

My wife teaches at junior colleges (not tenured), so I know exactly what she makes. Her pay seems fair to me, but she really kills herself putting in a ton of extra hours into her classes to make them better, so the "hourly" pay is pretty low for her.

My grad professor didn't do shit and therefore was WAY WAY over paid. He used the same 5 year old notes for every lecture, missed at least a weeks worth of classes every quarter (making his grad student give the lecture), reused half of his old midterm and final questions while making his grad students write the other half of the tests. The day before grades were due he would call a meeting with ~5 of his grad students and there would be a stack of ungraded final exams and he would say "ok guys divide these up and grade them" then go off to wherever.

So, that guy got ~90K salary for roughly 90 hours per year of actual work. I'd say $1,000/hour is over paid for a professor