• Question: what is the average salary for your job?

    Asked by natalie1999 to Amy, Grant, Martin, Shawn, Usman on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Grant Kennedy

      Grant Kennedy answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      It varies a lot depending on experience and where you are in the world. One of the best paid places fight now is actually Australia! Once you get past a PhD and start being a properly paid scientist in the UK the salaries are about £25,000 a year, and then go up from there with more experience. I’ve been doing it for 4 years and get about £30,000. For the qualifications scientists have this isn’t loads, but it’s easily enough to live on.
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    • Photo: Usman Kayani

      Usman Kayani answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      I’m still doing my PhD but its funded and I get £16,000 a year for something I wouldn’t mind doing for free. I also get a salary from tutoring which I get paid for weekly; around £20 an hour for teaching and around £10 per hour for marking assignments with a maximum of 4 hours, I have two tutorials which means I get 2 x (20 + 4 x 10) = £120 per week in tutorial – only during the semester though.

    • Photo: Amy Tyndall

      Amy Tyndall answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      I’m currently on just over £13,000, but that’s because I’m still ‘in training’ – I’m sort of in limbo between being a student and being in a real job! But as Grant says, the average for what we call a ‘post-doc position’ (i.e. after you finish a PhD, but before you get a full-time position) is about £30,000

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