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Asked by anon-229942 to Isaac, Alex on 13 Nov 2019.
Question: how much money do you earn daily for being a scientist?
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Alex Leide answered on 13 Nov 2019:
It depends how many years you have been a scientist, and how experienced you are, and who you work for. I work in a university, so about £32,000 per year (£90 per day). When I was a PhD student I earned about £55 per day. With more experience it should go up a bit, and maybe if I worked for a company the pay would be higher. But it is more important to enjoy your work than to earn lots of money. In some countries scientists are paid more, and in others they are paid less.
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Comments
Hira commented on :
My salary has varied from £50 per day (when I was a PhD student like Alex) all the way up to £800 per day (when doing important contract work for other companies).
anon-230478 commented on :
ok thats alot and you deserve it all
Elena commented on :
I think a pretty typical salary for a ‘post-doctoral’ researcher like myself (after finishing university studies but not yet being a university lecturer) in the UK is around £35 000 per year, but when things like taxes are subtracted it probably equals something like £90-120 per day (although I’m not great at maths!).