Are University Professors overpaid?

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Sorry it's longer than I wanted to write.

1. I posted the compensation of Professors further along in the thread; which has their actual compensation averages for 1,000+ Institutions and broken down. I would assume this accounts for all of their part-time or contracting faculty. If a course has part-time staff, well maybe the Professor could start teaching those classes like they are paid for.

2. I'm not going to realize, or care, about the extra duties with a job....Every job has extra duties. I work 24/7, my wife works 10-12+ hour days, 7 days a week, same with everybody I know. This is not a valid argument anymore in today's society (something that's wrong with society today).

3. I think a fair wage is around 80-110k, the chart below shows 130k+ in compensation; my wifes professors earned 200k+. Professors are getting paid to educate the student body, they need to be in the classroom; I think they were overpaid for what the student pays tuition for.

Now to be fair, my wifes Masters degree was worth the money for the knowledge; however, she gained a lot of knowledge in exercises with other students or research papers she wrote. My wife went into a low paying field, so I don't care about the ROI, it is the education that matters. She was accepted into all top 6 universities for her field, she chose #3.

I am entitled to my opinion that Professors are over paid for the work they perform. Not all professors obviously, just like any job, there are good ones and bad ones.