The thing is many will pay big bucks to contractors/consultants/IT services/LIMS systems, but if you’re an employee, nope. They have a hard time having someone

The thing is many will pay big bucks to contractors/consultants/IT services/LIMS systems, but if you’re an employee, nope. They have a hard time having someone with a BS or MS making 50-75k more than a freshly-minted PhD. I just left a job in pharma because I cannot do it anymore (salary being a big one, but my experiences reflect many in this thread). They spent 500k on a consulting company to build a few NGS processing pipelines. This was built using a framework I was unfamiliar with. I re-factored one of them and was able to increase runtime by 60% in a couple weeks. I was paid in the low 100’s. They would rather contract out the high-paid work and pay orders of magnitude more for it.