Assistant lecturers share university or college lecturers’ academic workload, specifically the provision of lectures to students.
The academic sector is always loaded with the best professionals. These are people who are always on the move for self-development. The academic sector, unlike other sectors, is very unique. As a lecturer, if you don’t publish you perish. That is to stay, they are always on the go to carry out researches.
Often wonder how much they earn even with all their effort in imparting knowledge? The work of a lecturer in a difficult one, not only in Ghana. Be it a junior, Senior lecturer, or even a professor, they should have decent take-home pay considering their own contribution to the economy.
The being said, we will be looking at the salaries of lecturers in Ghana. Just like we have mentioned above, there is a wide difference between the salaries of lecturers due to their ranks.
In fact, the salary increases as you move up the ladder of your academic career. Also, lecturers are paid according to their qualifications and affiliated institution. That is to say, a lecturer with a Ph.D. will definitely earn more than one with an MSc.
Also, the salaries of lecturers in private universities are quite different from that of public universities. On that note, let us take a look at the average salary of lectures in Ghana.
Lecturers in the lower cadre earn between GHC18,000 – GHC42,000 per annum.
Senior lecturers earn between GHC54,000 – GHC60,000 per annum.
Professors earn the most, and their salary is expected to be far above GHC96,000 per annum.
Several factors affect the salary of lecturers in Ghana. Some of them ranging from qualification to affiliated institution. However, we have provided a brief insight as to what lecturers earn on average in Ghana.A professor is a senior academic who has countless years of teaching experience.
The difference Between Lecturer and Professor is that after doing a Ph.D., applicants can become assistant professors which is the starting rank in the teaching profession, but an assistant professor does not have tenure.
The average salary for an Assistant lecturer is 2,444.31 Ghana Cedi per month.
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