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Doctors Without Orders: Highlights of the Sigma Xi Postdoc Survey
Results of Sigma Xi's survey of 7600 postdocs at 46 US institutions. Very interesting discussion of salaries, training, and administrative oversight.
Postdocs & students: Private foundations push for higher postdoc salaries
The levels of most postdoc salaries at US biomedical research institutions are set by the National Institutes of Health. But private philanthropies, which consistently claim such stipends are insufficient, have worked to boost these wages by sponsoring studies on salaries and by offering their own grants with higher levels of support.
1998 NIH National Research Service Award Stipend Levels
A press release about the 1998 stipend increase. New NIH-mandated salaries for postdocs: $21,000/year for new Ph.D.s rising to $33,012/year after 7 years of experience. Note that not all universities follow these guidelines.
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipend Levels for 2006
Some institutions use NRSA stipend levels as the benchmark against which they set postdoc salaries. Here are the numbers for 2006.
Healthy limits (Naturejobs Postdocs & Students) 8 Jan, 2004
The US National Institutes of Health stipends are being used as de facto guidelines for postdoc salaries. But do institutions try to meet them?
Stipend survival - - Naturejobs postdocs & students : March 4, 2004
Graduate-student pay levels mean tight budgets and inventive cost-cutting, but is the five-year pay freeze worth it? Kendall Powell calculates the bottom line.
Healthy Limits
NatureJobs, January 2004. "The US National Institutes of Health stipends are being used as de facto guidelines for postdoc salaries. But do institutions try to meet them? Karen Kreeger investigates."