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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Postdocs get paid a lot though ours get like $11k a month for math

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The NIH postdoc rate and therefore academic standards in most places for all biomedical postdocs is ~60k. Math is an outlier by a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I guess they have to compete with the financial sector and the likes? Over here, it varies wildly by field and by what you do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I volunteered a fair bit at my college’s food pantry. The undergrads might grab one or two things. The grad students and the post docs were desperate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You gotta compare this to standard industry pay for this level of education