There are few either highly satisfied or not satisfied . Here the main summary is in the form of a contrast between academia and the private sector divided into four main categories. The next step up is the assistant professor, whose equivalent is the field director. The next step up is the associate professor whose equivalent is the Project Manager. The final category is that of Full Professor, whose equivalent is that of President in a private company.
Promotion is faster too.
Virtually everyone in an academic position has a PhD, but a large proportion in the private sector have only Masters degrees. Crew members and crew chiefs may not even have earned their bachelor s degrees. It normally takes 3 to 6 years for an assistant professor to earn tenure and progress to Associate professor and then several more years before being considered for promotion to full professor. Promotion in the private sector is not so highly structured, so climbing the corporate ladder in the private sector may take substantially less time than to progress along the tenure track. Turning to the profession generally, American archaeology is virtually an all-white profession.