So here are some super rough pre-tax annual numbers for a STEM path in the US (looking at my peers who did physics and some of whom went into ML, which is what

So here are some super rough pre-tax annual numbers for a STEM path in the US (looking at my peers who did physics and some of whom went into ML, which is what I did) Grad student ~30k Postdoc ~50k Assistance professor ~ 100-150k Distinguished full professor ~ 250k-350k Industry after masters ~ 100-150k Industry after PhD ~ 150-300k Distinguish engineering fellow in industry (physics) >500k