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Asked by khan to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: Scientist. This question was also asked by legend.
Question: How much do you get payed?
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Laura Maliszewski answered on 15 Jun 2010:
About half of what I’d get paid in an industry job, but more than a post-doc.
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Sarah Bardsley answered on 18 Jun 2010:
Enough to live a nice life and have a couple of holidays a year!
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Mark Roberts answered on 21 Jun 2010:
Scientists who have a pHd like me (those that are called Dr) earn between 27 and 33 thousand pounds a year.
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Lily Asquith answered on 21 Jun 2010:
At the moment I don’t get paid anything!
As a phd student I got a scholarship of about £14,000 a year.
When I start my `proper’ job in August I will be paid something like £35,000 a year.
You never get much more than that as a physicist. Alot of physics PhDs leave physics and go into banking, where they can start on £60,000 a year and then earn zillions.
So even if you don’t want to be a scientist, it is certainly worthwile studying science if you want to be a zillionaire.
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Paul Roche answered on 21 Jun 2010:
Scientists working in universities would earn around £25,000 with a PhD when they started, then maybe £35-55,000 as a lecturer, and over £65,000 as a Professor. A head of department might earn over £100,000.
In industry, many people with science backgrounds end up as very senior managers and directors, so they can earn huge amounts of money. Lots of scientists I know eventually ended up working for banks or in the City, and they earn a LOT of money – but I’m happy being able to wear scruffy clothes to work, and having a lot of freedom to study what I want to, and to travel around a lot doing science (in my case, astronomy)!
It’s not all about money (for most scientists), but with a science or maths background you are VERY employable in industry, so a majority of the heads of big businesses (IT companies, Oil companies etc.) will have science, maths or engineering degrees.
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