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Additionally, professor wages are among the most compressed. At my university, it is often cheaper to keep on professors who are old enough to retire, instead o
by rw 18y ago
Additionally, professor wages are among the most compressed. At my university, it is often cheaper to keep on professors who are old enough to retire, instead of hiring fresh talent.
- RK 18y agoI think there is also an incredible amount of competition for the junior faculty positions as well. One of my friends, who recently started a physics post-doc at Caltech is convinced that he will have to eventually go into the private sector to support his family, since there are so few faculty job possibilities and he can't be a post-doc forever. Luckily for him, he has computing and finance work experience from before he was in grad school.