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Cover the two PhD students at the NIH payscales for PhD students on a standard training grant[1] ($43,894 not including benefits) and you've used up over a quar
by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Cover the two PhD students at the NIH payscales for PhD students on a standard training grant[1] ($43,894 not including benefits) and you've used up over a quarter of your budget on less than half the salary needs, completely ignoring any research costs that need to be covered on top of the much higher payscales of the professors. Plus a large number of PhD students in this kind of work make more than the states stipend above. Not extravagant.
https://osr.ucsf.edu/news/nih-update-ruth-l-kirschstein-national-research-service-award-nrsa-stipends-tuitionfees-and#:~:text=NIH%20Monthly%20Stipend%20FY%202023&text=FY%202023%20Stipend%20for%20Predoctoral,fellows%20are%20increased%20to%20%2412%2C200 https://osr.ucsf.edu/news/nih-update-ruth-l-kirschstein-nati....
- lasfter 3y agoWhere are you seeing $44k? The link you gave shows payscales for postdocs, and points to another page [1] showing that predoctoral trainees get $27k. Also, in my field and in my region, $27k is massive funding. I don't know anybody who makes that much, let alone $44k, and we also don't get tuition or benefits covered. Our TA/RA union is currently striking because it's essentially impossible to live off of funding alone. [1] https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-076.html https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-0...
- xwdv 3y agoThis was my conclusion as well. Will wait to see what the response is here.
- neuronerdgirl 3y agoI'll give you that I misread bullet 2, so the total is a little over 31k. But grants that fund salaries for predoctoral scholars don't just fund the salary itself, they also cover the additional funds listed on that page. You can't partially fund a trainee on a grant. In any case, this wildly misses the forest for the trees - 1.2 mil in grants does not cover 6 years of salary plus research costs for 2 trainees and 2 professors full stop.