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Originally Posted by acup313
I would say that umpunk's advice is probably all really good. The 125K I mentioned I heard from somone else so it may not be entirely accurate. Even if it is, it is definitely the exception and not the rule. I could be wrong, but I think most teaching schools are under 100K, but not too much under.
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I agree - it would certainly be the exception. I don't want to discourage anybody though - it is always possible that based on experience, job location, and the market at the time that a teaching school could offer $125,000 (very unlikely). My bigger concern, again, would be the no research requirements. I do not mean to come down hard on you (I'm sure you are just repeating what you have been told), but I don't want somebody going into this career with his/her eyes closed - you will always, ALWAYS, have some research requirements.
Basically there are two types of research. The first is what we term empirical - experiments, models, etc... This type of research is more difficult, published in higher rated journals, and is what "research" schools expect. The second type is clinical (or practitioner) type research. These are usually articles discussing a specific topic with no (or a very small) experiment. Ironically, this type or research is actually read by many more people (practicing accountants), but is not highly regarded at research schools. Generally, all schools make you publish between 2 and 10 articles. Research schools generally say most (if not all) has to be empirical in nature at high quality journals. Teaching schools generally give you the choice - clinical or empirical. Most professors at teaching schools, for obvious reasons, choose to do clinical research since it is easier to publish and less time consuming. In addition, a lot of people like it since you get much more feedback on the articles (since more people actually read them).
Research schools generally pay more, offer more benefits (reduced teaching loads, summer support without teaching, funding for conferences, etc...), and have better reputations than teaching schools. The flip side is that there is generally much more stress involved - if you don't publish to their expectations (regardless of anything else you do for the university), then you will be gone after 6 years when you don't make tenure. In fact, it's not even 6 years at this point - most schools do an evaluation after 3 years and many people are shown the door at this time if it is obvious they won't publish.
At the end of the day though, you will have to publish
something even if you are at a teaching school. It's just that the research being asked of you is a lot easier to do.