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You are making some interesting point, but one of your main ones, point 1, is not even remotely true today (if ever?). Salaries for tenured (research) professor
by krastanov 3y ago
You are making some interesting point, but one of your main ones, point 1, is not even remotely true today (if ever?). Salaries for tenured (research) professors in STEM fields are "good". Starting salary in mid-level CS department is >150k for tenure track positions. That is within the top 10 percentile of salaries in the US. No one is expecting STEM professors to be from some blue blood family background. The majority of STEM professors I know came from lower-middle-class backgrounds and are significantly outearning their parents (adjusted for inflation too) and their professorship salary is far bigger than any other salary they have had in their lives (frequently by more than 2x).
- earthboundkid 3y agoI was offered more as a junior web dev with no experience than I was offered for a tenure track job. It obviously varies a lot by field, but even if you are on tenure track, you can still be under 100K.
- krastanov 3y agoWas that in a STEM field? I know there is discrepancy between STEM and non-STEM and I can more easily believe that @derefr is right in the non-STEM context.
- earthboundkid 3y agoNon-STEM. STEM has its own abusive system of post-docs, but the salaries for profs aren’t as bad.