How Much Do Criminal Justice Professors Make in 2021 (including Starting Salary)

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Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries

Criminal Justice Professors

Criminal Justice Professors teach courses in criminal justice, corrections, and law enforcement administration. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Salary
$74740
Becoming One
Very Hard
Education
Master's degree
Job Satisfaction
Job Growth

Personality
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Table of contents
  1. Average salary
  2. Starting salary
  3. Salary rank
  4. Salary range
  5. Highest paying states
  6. Highest paying industries

Average salary

Annual salary
$74740 per year

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary
$35,180 to $49,140 per year

Entry-level Postsecondary Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $35,180 to $49,140 per year. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.

Salary rank

Salary rank
B

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Postsecondary Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.

Salary range

Level Hourly Annual
Highest (Top 10%) $* $129,820
Senior (Top 25%) $* $86,680
Middle (Mid 50%) $* $63,560
Junior (Bottom 25%) $* $49,140
No experience (Bottom 10%) $* $35,180

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
CA $* $123,990
FL $* $89,510
NY $* $86,340
OR $* $83,840
DC $* $81,400
PA $* $80,260
NV $* $80,020
RI $* $79,630
WI $* $79,000
CT $* $78,910

* Postsecondary Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers are generally paid on an annual basis not hourly.

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Postsecondary Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teacher is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like CA doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at CA might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Criminal Justice Professors are in the states of CA, FL, NY, OR and DC.

Highest paying industries

Salary by industry Annual Hourly
Junior Colleges $77890 $*
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools $72420 $*
Technical and Trade Schools $55230 $*
State Government $53870 $*

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