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If you're comparing to expensive places to live, Switzerland pays academics well. Postdoc salaries are around 85-100k (CHF, which is about the same as USD these
by joshvm 4y ago
If you're comparing to expensive places to live, Switzerland pays academics well. Postdoc salaries are around 85-100k (CHF, which is about the same as USD these days). Many universities don't have much in the way of a pay ladder though (ETH maxes out at 3 years experience). Full professors can hit 250k+. A studio in Zurich is 1500+/mo though which is comparable to central London, but competition is fiercer.
In the UK an experienced postdoc, or one with a competing offer, can make around 40k before having to push for lectureships. Professorial salaries start at 60k and maybe hit six figures for senior staff. Munich is fairly high, I think between 50-70k depending on who you ask (TV-L E13). Scandinavia is not great compared to the high cost of living, last time I checked.
- j7ake 4y agoSo postdoc salary in Switzerland is still less than teaching adjunct in Berkeley, so to me Berkeley still pays very high.
- joshvm 4y agoYes exactly, when I saw $100k I thought that sounded pretty good for an academic salary basically anywhere else except Switzerland. A better comparison is somewhere like Oxford/Cambridge which both have extremely high rent/income ratios - some of the worst in the country - many postdocs, and almost all PhDs, can't afford to live alone. A room is close to 1k a month which is absurd in the UK.