Bonuses and perks for academics can include: a nice office, computer budget (i.e. you can spend on hardware/software), book budget, RA budget.
Again, academic economists get paid for 9 months so you should multiply their salary by 12/9, then add "academic perks" and it works out to about the same (using the numbers OP gave).
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I'm gonna have to disagree. I imagine that academics get stressed as well. There is a good deal of pressure to publish and I imagine it can be very stressful at times.
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As I was saying, "if they want to be" stressed then academic economists will be stressed. But this is pretty much a choice. If one wants to take it easy, he will avoid any of Top-50 schools, get a decent salary with relatively flexible teaching... If one wants to take it hard, well it's his or her choice.
Again, I hate giving untrackable information, but a recent top-5 (well... Chicago, haha) graduate said he accepted a job offer from top100 versus top20 AND it paid more! He said that there is of course prestige in working at a famous uni, but [his or her] friends at those unis were working weekends and late evenings just to get stuff published in time.