Re: Salaries of Scientists

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From: Straydog
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 22:42

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On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Old Pif wrote:

>
> Straydog wrote:
>> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, jupiterscientific2004b@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>>> The latest figures for the salaries of scientists including teachers
>>> have been posted at
>>>
>>> http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/sciencesalaries.html
>>
>> And, how valid might these numbers be? And, would the sample size be
>> appropriate? And, did they include figures on how many left science,
>> voluntarily or involuntarily for greener pastures?
>>
>
> As far as physicists are concern the number $106,716 for Experienced
> Senior Physicist is close to reality only for those with Secrete
> Clearance or higher. Mostly due to the huge backlog in clearance
> processing which has inflated salaries for about 20%. So if we take
> this 20% off the number is 85,372 which is in between Experienced
> Astronomer and Experienced Senior Biologist.
>
> Old Pif
>
>

We also need a correction factor for all those that got relevant degrees
but did not get relevant jobs.

And, if they talk about "experienced X" does that mean they are not 
counting the "non-experienced X" (postdocs? grad students?)

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