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Article #15368Re: Salaries of US Scientists Drop
From: Roland Franzius
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:19
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:19
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jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote: > In article <e58d56ae.0311230725.5143a4a0@posting.google.com>, > whopkins@csd.uwm.edu (Alfred Einstead) wrote: > >>jspub2003@yahoo.com (jsp) wrote: >> >>>During the past two years, the salaries of >>>most scientists including physicists have decreased significantly. >> >>Too much supply, not enough demand. > > > How am I supposed to read this datum? 1. Every employed scientist > has received a pay cut. 2. Starting salaries have decreased; but > starting salaries for what? 3. The salaries of jobs transforming > dirt into gold are averaged in with the medical biochem jobs causing > the average for biochem to drop and the average for dirt-to-gold > to rise? Consider the averaged effect made up by ten physicists with salaries of 10^6$/a fired or retired. -- Roland Franzius
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