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Information on salaries for Ph.D.s both in academia and in industry.

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The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
US Census, July, 2002. "This report illustrates the economic value of an education, that is, the added value of a high school diploma or college degree. It explores the relationship between educational attainment and earnings and demonstrates how the relationship has changed over the last 25 years. Additionally, it provides, by level of education, synthetic estimates of average total earnings adults are likely to accumulate over the course of their working lives."
CRA Taulbee Survey
Salaries of computer science PhDs at PhD-granting departments, courtesy of the ACM.
Small Mistakes With Big Consequences
Dave Jensen, ScienceCareers. "It is by reading about other people's successes and failures that you can develop a game plan for the continued management of your career. So, in this month's column, I'd like to use OPE to relate three small job-search mistakes that can have very big consequences."
Faculty Salaries Rise, for Now
AAUP reports a 3.8% pay increase, but warns that the future may be bleak. Chronicle of Higher Education, April 19, 2002.
Salaries For PhD Physicists and Related Scientists during Spring 2004
"This is a summary of the latest salary data for physicists and related scientists. It is based on a biennial survey of a sample of U.S.-resident members of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Member Societies conducted by the Statistical Research Center of AIP."
Salary of recent S&E doctorate recipients 1–4 years after receiving degree: 2003
Data from the NSF's Survey of Doctorate Recipients.
Stipends for Graduate Assistants
"The Chronicle surveyed the top research universities in the United States about the benefits they provide to their teaching and research assistants. The survey was designed to provide a snapshot of the benefits, rather than a comprehensive look at every graduate student or every graduate institution."
Science Salaries by Discipline, 2005
Salaries of scientists collected from salary.com
Salary Fights
An article which examines pay gaps between professional school professors and everyone else
AAUP Faculty Salary Survey
"Search five years of average faculty salaries arranged by academic rank at more than 1,400 colleges, universities, and multicampus systems."
Money Pit
by Patti See, Salon Magazine, June 2, 1999. "When a university faculty union distributes the salary list, public record becomes private hell."
Nature Biotech - Career Survey Results
An online survey of Nature Biotechnology readers reveals lower-than-anticipated salaries and a significant portion with a younger than anticipated age. For a period of three weeks beginning June 24, 2002, Nature Biotechnology conducted an online survey of its readers to determine information about their education, specialization,
Faculty Salaries, 2000-2001
Average faculty salaries are arranged by academic rank at more than 1,400 colleges, universities, and multicampus systems in 2000-1 based on data compiled by the AAUP.
College and University Faculty Salary Database
Generate reports on faculty salaries for nearly 4,000 colleges and universities using the IPEDS Interactive Database.
ACS Salary Survey, 2002
Salaries for chemists in academia and industry.
NBER's WorkLife Wizard
Salary checkers from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
AAUP's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 1999-2000
An overview of salaries for the professoriate, with particular attention being given to growing salary inequalities within the profession.
UK Pay Levels
New Scientist, March 27, 1999. Salaries for science graduates in the UK.
Salaries for new CalTech PhDs
Salaries offered to and accepted by CalTech PhDs in academia and industry by discipline. Very interesting info.
AAUP's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2000-2001
An overview of salaries for the professoriate.
SalaryExpert.com
"The most comprehensive salary site on the Internet, offering free wage, benefit, and cost-of-living survey information."