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Hahaha grad students making "above median wage"? Not too many of those...

• jholman 12y ago
  What facts can I find? Let's see. Wikipedia says that the World Almanac says that the US Census Bureau says that, across all money-earning Americans of age 15 or over, the median for males is around $30k and for females is around $17k. The median for both genders combined is somewhere between $25k and $28k. Grad students? Clearly from my "10 years of education and 60 hours weeks" I wasn't primarily referring to grad students. However... in my understanding standard US grad student stipends are usually over $20k, plus a tuition waiver, for 8 or 9 months of work. That sounds like it's more than $30k/year (pro-rated). Many authors are not students. NSRA stipends for post-docs are $40k-$55k. Obviously tenure-track positions do somewhere between a little and a lot better than that. I think it's clear that the main catch in "above-median wage" is it's only above-median if the reference class ignores educational attainment. Median wages for people with graduate degrees are substantially higher.