This is a problem across the hard sciences particularly ones with a computational focus. The salaries are, simply put, pathetic. Even at private labs I have fri

This is a problem across the hard sciences particularly ones with a computational focus. The salaries are, simply put, pathetic. Even at private labs I have friends who make 80-100k USD when industry would pay the same job twice as much. And it's not like 100k is the same 100k it was 5-10 years ago. It's wild that nothing is being done to increase salaries in science. Everyone just seems to bury their heads in the sand and hope someone else will fix it.