Actually those benefits are often exempt or deductible (at least partially): - From the feds: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p970 https://www.irs.gov/publica

Actually those benefits are often exempt or deductible (at least partially): - From the feds: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p970 https://www.irs.gov/publications/p970 Furthermore, employers tend to pay for actual classes (with a professor and meetings and all that). A lot of the outrage around this is that the research portion of a PhD doesn't actually involve any of that.