For those among us who have thought of becoming college professors, here's a handy chart from today's Chronicle of Higher Education that shows how top universities compensate their faculty:

University Faculty Salaries

Considering the budget struggles the University of California system has endured lately, UCLA's professors are doing better than one might expect.

Then again, what's a hundred grand here or there? Dan Guerrero would chortle at this list if he paused to read it while wiping sweat from his forehead and hauling his jingling bounty to a bank in Westwood. Why publish papers in Moore Hall when you can pad your paycheck at the Morgan Center?