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| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 140 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 148 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 160 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 166 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 167 | 0.00% |
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $64,303 | $30.91 | +3.0% |
| 2024 | $62,450 | $30.02 | +2.8% |
| 2023 | $60,743 | $29.20 | +4.1% |
| 2022 | $58,347 | $28.05 | +1.6% |
| 2021 | $57,406 | $27.60 | --0.2% |
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 388 | 56% |
| 2 | Vermont | 623,657 | 218 | 35% |
| 3 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 1,735 | 25% |
| 4 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 1,402 | 25% |
| 5 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 1,776 | 21% |
| 6 | Delaware | 961,939 | 201 | 21% |
| 7 | South Dakota | 869,666 | 184 | 21% |
| 8 | Indiana | 6,666,818 | 1,340 | 20% |
| 9 | Iowa | 3,145,711 | 639 | 20% |
| 10 | Nebraska | 1,920,076 | 387 | 20% |
| 11 | Wisconsin | 5,795,483 | 1,116 | 19% |
| 12 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 1,075 | 19% |
| 13 | North Dakota | 755,393 | 140 | 19% |
| 14 | North Carolina | 10,273,419 | 1,877 | 18% |
| 15 | Kansas | 2,913,123 | 521 | 18% |
| 16 | Idaho | 1,716,943 | 306 | 18% |
| 17 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 238 | 18% |
| 18 | Rhode Island | 1,059,639 | 195 | 18% |
| 19 | Wyoming | 579,315 | 105 | 18% |
| 20 | Michigan | 9,962,311 | 1,723 | 17% |
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Fabio Lanza: Difficult to say, given how quickly things change. Digital humanities was and still is fashionable and important. Public history (museum, exhibitions, outreach). And teaching.
Lee Braver: Soft skills are most important to working once one has gotten a job rather than important to getting a job since those are quite difficult to discern from applications and brief interviews. That is one of the reasons schools can be wary of hiring with tenure; a person could look great on paper but be a nightmare to work with, and you're stuck with them.
I believe that tenacity, organizational skills and time management, and the ability to work long hours are crucial to getting tenure and succeeding in academia more broadly, in some ways more important than raw intelligence (if such a notion is coherent). Failure and rejection are endemic to the job; anyone who gets discouraged easily will do so. One must persevere in the face of sometimes harsh criticism and hostile conditions (especially now that much of the country has turned against higher education and the humanities in particular), and one must be able to juggle multiple responsibilities that make considerable time demands. In this, the tenure track resembles other early-career positions, such as medical residency or working towards partnership in a law firm. The untenured often must do the scut work that no one else wants to do, made more difficult by the fact that they are frantically trying to learn on the job with little to no guidance. It is not at all unusual for early-career professors to teach 4 classes per semester, at least some of which are new and/or large, do all the grading for them, serve on multiple committees, and write for elusive publications, all at once.
Lee Braver: Well, a Ph.D. is necessary, although one can sometimes be hired within striking distance of it. The ability to teach so as to bring students to the major and get high student evaluations are often requirements at teaching schools while writing well enough to publish, often in journals with single-digit acceptance rates, is crucial to research schools. Comfort with technology is becoming more and more important.
Lee Braver: Let's see-an M.B.A., the ability to pick winning lottery numbers, being repelled by the humanities so that one goes into business-those would be pretty useful for making money. No one should go into academia for the money, not just not for wealth but even for a comfortable living, which is becoming more difficult to achieve in America in general. It is nearly impossible to make a living as an adjunct professor, which is where the profession is heading. There are many good-paying jobs, but those tend to congregate at the elite schools, the ones that emphasize research the most, and these are the fewest and hardest to get. Worse-paying jobs are also hard to come by, and the competition is just getting stiffer as more Ph.D.'s get dumped into the market each year which is itself accreting all those who did not land jobs in the previous years. At many institutions, raises are minimal since jobs are so hard to come by, and there's little else that rewards a humanities Ph.D. The only way to get a substantial raise is to get a credible offer from another institution and hope that yours wants to keep you enough to overbid them; otherwise, you're stuck, especially after getting tenure, and they know it. That's why tenure is called "golden handcuffs," though I think a better name might be something like velvet handcuffs, given gold's connotation of wealth.