Do professors get paid more after getting important awards?

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Do professors get paid more after getting important awards?

I don't mean big national or international awards, because then obviously yes. I mean awards within the university.

Some awards have monetary sums associated with them, in which case the person would be receiving more money that way. If the award is just for the glory, though, a person can still put it on their CV and it will count in their favor when they are reviewed for tenure (having tenure usually means improved pay.)

I've always understood that professors write papers in an effort to get more publishing credits. The more published works they have, the more the university they work for likes them, and the better their chances are for getting tenure. Even though the person who wrote the paper almost never receives any money for their paper. It's simply de rigueur..

Sometimes there are monetary prizes, but those are, I would imagine, extremely competitive and probably not all that lucrative.

Rabbitt-- yes, you're on track there... a lot of universities are what's known as publish-or-perish environments. We don't get paid to publish, and we don't pay the journals that publish our writing, but we're expected to do it as part of our jobs.

Some awards have money.

Some departments might pay a bonus.

Mostly they do it for credit and name recognition. Becoming an expert and making a name for yourself gets you better opportunities.