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Using NYC salary schedule and then comparing to an average scientist salary that you have no source for is very disingenuous. NYC has an extremely high standar

Using NYC salary schedule and then comparing to an average scientist salary that you have no source for is very disingenuous. NYC has an extremely high standard of living and all wages are higher there, this is common knowledge. This doesn't change the facts on the national average that I posted, 42k. Then you argue most scientist will not get postdoc but end up a teacher, which is supposed to be so a much better paying job, but not for them? I didn't post stats for "top" scientist, I posted national averages, and if you looked all scientist categories averaged higher than teachers period. teachers don't work very hard, scientists do Wow, you don't have an agenda do you...

yummyfajitas 16y ago
Actually, you didn't post any national averages. You posted data sets from payscale.com, which is a nonscientific sampling. The high end numbers I gave you on scientist pay are big city numbers (NY, Chicago, LA, expensive parts of NJ). Actually, some of the medium range numbers are also available in the expensive parts of NJ. Most scientists who wind up as a teacher will be teaching at college, which does pay considerably less. If you want to include them under teacher, be my guest. In that case you are correct, but with the caveat that most scientists fall off the scientific career path and land on the low end of teaching. I stand by my statement that teachers don't work very hard. So does the BLS. http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf