[HPforGrownups] Income of professors at Hogwarts?

[Kathryn Cawte]

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Amy:
 
Does anyone have any idea whether working as a professor at Hogwarts 
would be considered a high or low income job? I'm intrigued by the 
idea that James and Lily could have been professors before their 
deaths, but I don't feel there's enough canon to support it yet. We 
know that the teachers are paid (since Lupin's DADA position was his 
first paid job in many years). I'm inclined to assume that teachers 
earn a relatively low income but I don't know anything about the 
income of professors at British/Scottish boarding schools. I'd love 
to hear anyone's thoughts or input on this topic.
 
Me (K) -

Well teachers at boarding schools tend to be paid a lot more than teachers
at normal State schools, but that's because public schools always pay more
than state schools - so I gues in part it goes back to is Hogwarts a 'state'
school or is it independent and how well funded is it.

Having said that the teachers would I imagine be living virtually for free 9
months of the year (board and food being provided by the school) so even if
they weren't well-paid per se they would be a lot better of than people in
jobs that on the surface appear to be better paid.

But if James or Lily had been teachers I'm sure someone would have mentioned
it to Harry by now. Besides when on earth would they have had the time? They
were only in their early twenties when they died and in those few years they
d managed to get married, have a child a repeatedly defy Voldemort -
although bearing in mind Harry's defied Voldemort (so to speak) at least
four times now I guess they could have done some of the 'defying' while at
school.

K