an academic researcher in the Bay, who would earn around $40,000-50,000 per year, and a comparable researcher in a for-profit lab, who earns $200,000-500,000.
Totally unrelated to the purpose of the post, but is this for real? $50,000 seems absurdly low, especially since the Bay Area has a high cost of living.
Totally unrelated to the purpose of the post, but is this for real? $50,000 seems absurdly low, especially since the Bay Area has a high cost of living.
Academic salaries are crazy low (which is one of my many reasons for not wanting to do a PhD lol)
Hi Jakub, these are standard rates for EECS PhD students (PhD students in other disciplines get paid less). Here are a couple as an example:
Berkeley EECS PhD students are paid $45K per year at the PhD level. (from personal acquaintances at in the Berkeley EECS program)
MIT EECS PhD students are paid ~$49.2K per year at the PhD level. (source)
Ah ok, I thought “academic researcher” referred to professors/lecturers/postdocs, not PhD students.