Fwiw, starting salary for a chemistry PhD in industry was somewhere in the 30-40k usd range in the early 80’s. There was a downturn during that time that made l

Fwiw, starting salary for a chemistry PhD in industry was somewhere in the 30-40k usd range in the early 80’s. There was a downturn during that time that made looking for anything but a postdoc difficult. Edit: unless it’s changed recently, the ACS publishes their salary survey for chemists in the us yearly so you can look it up if you seek data on pharma salaries.