Those salary expectations only hold in the very top tier of universities. From [1]: Median starting salaries for assistant professors are more like $75k. Medi

Those salary expectations only hold in the very top tier of universities. From [1]: Median starting salaries for assistant professors are more like $75k. Median full professors--who are nearly 50 years old--are earning $120k. (Admittedly this does not control for field.) That's about what a green PhD gets offered at age 28 for a data science job in SF. [1] https://chronicle.com/article/aaup-survey-data-2013/138309#id=243744 https://chronicle.com/article/aaup-survey-data-2013/138309#i...