The job of a tenured STEM faculty member is not the same as contract lecturer.
Tenured faculty do research and run the university as well as teach. At a major research school a STEM faculty member will often raise hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in outside research funds, which will pay upwards of ten graduate students and the other running costs of a research lab. They will do and publish new research, usually while training graduate students, review the work of others, run conferences, sit on hiring committees,, take turns being Director of this or that (ie. management positions).
Many STEM professors raise more external money than their salary costs. They are dollar positive to the school before they teach anything. And they teach too.
Yes, it has a salary better than contract teaching.
research, rarely. running their department, designing courses and materials for other faculty to teach with, as well as a lot of organizational housekeeping chores (of the sort handled by non-faculty staff) at 4 year schools? constantly.
Tenured faculty do research and run the university as well as teach. At a major research school a STEM faculty member will often raise hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in outside research funds, which will pay upwards of ten graduate students and the other running costs of a research lab. They will do and publish new research, usually while training graduate students, review the work of others, run conferences, sit on hiring committees,, take turns being Director of this or that (ie. management positions).
Many STEM professors raise more external money than their salary costs. They are dollar positive to the school before they teach anything. And they teach too.
Yes, it has a salary better than contract teaching.