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A lot of this is defined by the NIH, K23/R01 grant amounts specify what kind of salary they support and are kind of defined by the powers that be... UC system
by caycep 2y ago
A lot of this is defined by the NIH, K23/R01 grant amounts specify what kind of salary they support and are kind of defined by the powers that be...
UC system def has more overhead than usual, and there may be some cost-of-living adjustments but...
Hence why a lot of us went into private practice...
- bruce511 2y agoI'll add in that it's a buyer's market. There are plenty of post docs with no work (who want to work in the academic space) so if you don't want the post there are plenty in line who do. There's no post-doc-research union to set and enforce reasonable pay scales, but equally a union would have difficulty adjusting rates to local cost of living. Put another way - supply and demand baby, supply and demand.
- _yb2s 2y agoUC postdocs are unionized… but it’s not a great union. The higher paid postdocs saw their pay and benefits go down from the union.