Is there any money in academia if I'm looking for an eventual career shift?

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You can look at the wages for professors for all public schools, they make a decent living once they establish themselves

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Short answer is nope. Longer answer is maybe, but only if you can avoid the hell of adjunct faculty positions and get on a tenure track, which is hard and getting harder by the day -- and even then you're not going to be making anything like the income you could in professional practice. The trade-off is a more relaxed work life balance, and the chance, depending on the institution, that you might be able to get access to a defined-benefit pension plan instead of or in addition to a 401(k).

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