Your average religion or theology professor makes a handsome living off the man who had not where to lay his head

Data: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources

2015-16 averages: All 4-year institutions/public/private

The raw average US wage was only $46,120 in 2015, compared with $92,741 for an average full professor of religion, or 50.3% less.

$92,741 put you in the top 9% of all earners in 2015. And for every 71 of them you meet, say at the annual meetings of the SBL or AAR, 70 are registered Democrats.

ὁ δὲ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἔχει ποῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν κλίνῃ.