This site collects data in the public domain for salaries across different fields, including philosophy, at a wide array of public universities, from the top PhD-granting department, to public schools focused on undergraduate education. It is often, but not always, possible to search by "philosophy," though in some cases you need to search by name. Anyone thinking of an academic career in philosophy ought to spend some time looking at this data in order to get a realistic sense of what the financial future might look like. Philosophers earning over $100,000 per year in 2009 are in the minority. Very distinguished senior philosophers (e.g., those elected to the American Academy, who can and do get offers from other leading departments) earn salaries in the $175-to-200,000 range. There is some variation by region of the country, and there are outliers, like Rutgers. Also bear in mind that the public data may not include summer salaries in some cases. Private universities will, on average, pay somewhat more than their public peers, but bear in mind that most private institutions of higher education focused on undergraduate education are probably paying less (anecdotal evidence suggests a lot less) than the top public research universities like Michigan and California.
UPDATE: A colleague elsewhere writes with some pertinent observations: "[B]enefits can also matter a great deal. Three things stand out: college tuition benefits, retirement matching/contributions (especially if your contribution is small and the institutional contribution is large-ish, say, 4% & 10%, respectively) and the medical plan. These things can have a significant effect on take home pay, and should be taken into account. (For example, if you only have to contribute 4% of your salary instead of a counterpart contribution of 7%, your take-home pay is 3% higher than that of the counterpart.)" College tuition benefits tend to be more of an issue at private, rather than state, universities. and even among wealthy private universities there is considerable variation in the size and portability of the benefit (Chicago and Wash U/St. Louis, for example, have significantly better college tuition benefits than Cornell and Penn, just to take examples with which I'm familiar.) There are also some striking differences in retirement plans and the nature of the matching contributions. My impression is that there is less variation in medical benefits between schools, but it is sometimes difficult to assess from the outside.
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