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Asked by pingu453 to David, Rebecca, Simon, Verity, Wei on 21 Jun 2011.
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David Armstrong answered on 20 Jun 2011:
The salary of scientists depends on whether you work in a University or in Industry. In general they are well paid jobs, but not at the level of bankers or accountants. (i’m not saying how much I get paid – everyone in our lab has been reading my answers!)
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Wei Xun answered on 21 Jun 2011:
The salary also depends on what kind of qualifications you have, the more degrees, generally the more you earn. On the whole, people don’t tend to go into research for the wages 😛
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Rebecca Handley answered on 21 Jun 2011:
I’m still doing a PhD and I get paid £17,000 a year and thats tax free. As a postdoctoral researcher you can hope to earn anything between £20-30,000 a year, it starts off smaller and increases depending on the number of jobs you have had, the more experience the more money usually! As a scientist you dont always have to be a researcher, typically as research costs alot of money to do, so the wages aren’t that high. I’m a microbiologist, I could also work in a hospital lab testing samples from patients, there I could earn up to £40,000 a year. The most money for me, would be in pharmaceutical microbiology, where a senior microbiologist earns around £50-60,000 a year, but I’m a long way away from that at the moment!
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Verity Nye answered on 21 Jun 2011:
I’m doing a PhD wich is funded by NERC, so I get the standard stipned which is ~£14/year. It’s not much but it’s enough to live on and let’s face it, most of us in research don’t do it for material gain!
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Simon Trent answered on 21 Jun 2011:
Im earning £31,000 a year doing a post-doc (the job normally done after a PHD). This is slightly higher than average for someone at this stage of their career. The next step up for me is probably doing a fellowship, which tends to be around the £40,000 mark.
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