Please read this article about Nursing...

A psych CS with an active outpatient psychotherapy practice could easily be making more than $85K (possibly quite a bit more). CRNAs do pretty well, I know, although I don't know specific figures. I'm sure there are NPs and CNMs on the board who can comment on how realistic the $85K figure is for their specialties ...

The problem with salaries in nursing education has been around for a v. long time. When I came home from grad school with an MSN from a prestigious university and got a job teaching nursing at a local college, I was paid significantly less than I had made as a staff nurse before I got the advanced degree. Most people who are qualified to be nursing faculty face the same dilemma -- you love teaching (or are at least interested in it), but you practically have to take a vow of poverty to do it! I didn't leave teaching because of the money, I left because my SO and I relocated to another state and it was much easier to find a clinical position as a psych CS than a teaching job in the new location -- but that was nine years and a few jobs ago, and I haven't gone back to teaching ...