Mostly no, they do not. PIs are typically paid little, given their worth on the market for their skills. Even though he was 'famous', he got his Nobel at ~70 ye

Mostly no, they do not. PIs are typically paid little, given their worth on the market for their skills. Even though he was 'famous', he got his Nobel at ~70 years old, meaning that he spent most of his earning years 'unrecognized'. I know you can look up any University of California professor's earnings here: https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/article2642161.html https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/art... For instance Professor Vickram Chandra of UC Berkeley [0] made ~$91k in 2016 [1]. Other professors make more, like Professor Alexandrova of UCLA who make ~$146k in 2016 [2]. You can poke around the UCs and compare. Do remember that most PIs labor in grad school for ~7 years, earning barely anything. I do not know of other databases for other universities that do this, but many US states have sunshine laws that make professor's salaries public information. I know that Colorado also mandates that all public employee's emails are public information too and I think other states do this as well, though I do not have a list of them. [0]https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/22 https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/22 [1]https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/article2642161.html?appSession=887L947CK3UM98E4DB378779Z503C4T6TB5OJD2OJ495LF1Z091E7RD5BR409ZKV79G3UD4N4ITQ59HA712A8GKV9TKJ5RVF757MHBY9O6J6JO1335OAS2G5NHH1822F&RecordID=493784&PageID=8&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPIsortType=&CPIorderBy=&cbCurrentRecordPosition=8&Mod0LinkToDetails=True https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/art... [2]https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/article2642161.html?appSession=6B3RKRX1H8VB3IZ31YUKSNP966M6LA9697C9GSP7250BB7CEW9D7607C763RRFMZWEG7R4T2OI1W88L50X9M48768FH16L85SVZ2SX2N5S2H93C726P0P38HI3TV5901&RecordID=329255&PageID=8&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPIsortType=&CPIorderBy=&cbCurrentRecordPosition=1&Mod0LinkToDetails=True https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/art...