$67K is on the high end of the spectrum for a newly seasoned non-tenured faculty member. Anyway, teaching salaries are required to increase incrementally, so his original starting salary was most likely lower than that salary.<p>Most universities, particularly public ones, will engage in the practice of recycling lower-division teaching faculty every so often in order to avoid the wage jump from non-tenure status to tenure status.<p>Yeah, established teaching positions are a thing in other industrialized countries like Canada. The public higher-education system in the state of California has many flaws, and the absence of established teaching positions is one of them ... because the system is financially crippled.<p>And that&#x27;s the point I&#x27;m trying to make here. Coward should not be mad at UC Berkeley&#x27;s Math Department. He thinks the buck starts and stops with the Math Department. The department is the way it is because of the greater UC system&#x27;s financial insolvency molded by factors out of the control of UC Berkeley&#x27;s Math Department and UC Berkeley as a whole. The UC system sucks because of inappropriate state economic policies over the past decade or so that include egregious spending on unnecessary things.