Humbaba sent me this after the filter rejected his comment for some reason. This link tells you, among other things, that the average salary for an Astronomer is around $95k. I can tell you that's not the average salary for a non-tenured instructor, but it is believable for the field as a whole.
If I were willing to bust my ass and have my job depend on getting grants from various public and private sources of money plus publishing a bunch of papers, basically doing the job full time, weekends, nights and holidays included, then sure. But life is too short.
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