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.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has just come out with a list of the best paid professors in the U.S. At the top of the list is Harvard, which pays its full professors an average of $198,400 a year. Stanford, however, pays its associate professors the most, with an average salary of $131,200 annually.