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The complaint is that the salaries and roles are very bimodal. You're either a postdoc with very low pay and few responsibilities or a prof with pretty good pay
by robotresearcher 11y ago
The complaint is that the salaries and roles are very bimodal. You're either a postdoc with very low pay and few responsibilities or a prof with pretty good pay running your own lab. There are few roles in-between. There are some - soft money researchers - but these are not as common as they might be.
- chrisseaton 11y agoThere's a whole structured career ladder between those two roles. I guess it takes most people at least a decade after they finish their last post-doc before they become a professor. During that time you have fellowships, lecturerships, readerships, with increasing pay and responsibilities.
- robotresearcher 11y agoThose are the UK-derived names. In North America those are all referred to informally as 'professor'. Even the lowest, Assistant Professor, is usually expected to run their own lab. Many people don't ever make full Professor. edit: and the jump in pay and responsibility from postdoc to assistant prof is huge - maybe a factor of 2 in pay. The rest is incremental.