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Salary guide

Professor and reader salaries in the UK

The 33 professor or reader jobs with a salary advertised on UniJobs in the last 12 months typically paid £61,200 to £70,600. Half of them had a mid-point between £62,800 and £76,500.

Typical mid-point
£66,200
a year · from 33 adverts

By subject

Typical salaryMiddle halfJobs
Business & Management£66,400 to £75,200£65,100 to £78,3004
Law£64,900 to £68,800–3
Engineering£62,400 to £70,600£63,500 to £80,6007
Medicine & Dentistry£56,400 to £71,400£62,000 to £69,7004

By region

Typical salaryMiddle halfJobs
West Midlands£62,400 to £70,600£64,100 to £75,20013
North West England£60,300 to £68,800£63,700 to £66,4004
East of England£48,300 to £69,200£56,800 to £63,8004
East Midlands£70,900 to £84,600–3

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Associate Professor (Teaching Focussed)University of Warwick · Coventry £59,400–£68,800 Assistant/Associate Professor (Grade 9/10) or Professor (Grade 11) in Modern Ukrainian CultureUniversity of Cambridge · Cambridge · Grade 9 £48,300–£70,900 Professor (Sheikh Nasser al-Muhammad al-Sabah Chair) in International Relations, Regional Politics and SecurityUniversity of Durham · Durham £73,700–£100,600 Associate Professor in Sustainable ManufacturingCoventry University · Coventry £60,000–£63,600 Associate Professor (Physical AI Sensing)University of Warwick · Coventry £59,400–£68,800 Associate Professor (Human-AI Teaming)University of Warwick · Coventry £59,400–£68,800 Associate or Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Warwick · Coventry £48,300–£68,800 Associate Professor in Operations, Analytics, and Artificial IntelligenceThe Nottingham Trent University · Nottingham £60,400–£70,000 Professor and Head of Department in Accounting and FinanceThe Nottingham Trent University · Nottingham £75,000–£95,000 Movember Research Chair/Reader in Men's HealthThe University of York · York £59,400–£73,000

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How much does a professor or reader earn in the UK?

Based on 33 adverts on UniJobs in the last 12 months, a typical professor or reader job paid £61,200 to £70,600 a year, with a typical mid-point of £66,200.

How these figures work. They come only from salaries stated in job adverts on UniJobs over the last 12 months, per year, in pounds. "Typical salary" is the middle of the advertised starting points to the middle of the advertised top points. "Middle half" is the range of mid-points that half of the adverts fell within. Pay grades are set by each university, so the same grade can pay differently from place to place, and figures update as new jobs are posted.

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