They also used an additional hour in the morning for twighlight and a further hour in the evening for dusk. Due to the fact that there is a longer period of sunlight during summmer than there is during winter, the hours during the summer were longer than those during winter.
As of May 2010, 69,880 people worked as professors of English language and literature in the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. English professors across the United States made an average of $67,920 per year.
Professors at Boston University make on average $159,510 over the course of nine months, the typical contract for an academic year. This is $108,504 more than the average university professor's nine month salary ($51,006).n 2013 professors at Boston University had an effective annual salary of $212,680. This is $5,584 more than professors earned in 2012, the most recently reported prior year, and a 2.6 percent increase in effective annual salary over the previous year's average annual salary ($207,096).