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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."
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."
Postdoctoral Fellow Real Jobs Salary from SalaryList.com
Faculty Salary Database Faculty salaries at public universities assembled by The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech.
CRA Taulbee Survey Salaries of computer science PhDs at PhD-granting departments, courtesy of the ACM.
Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences Salary data for tenured and tenure-track faculty members in U.S. departments in the mathematical sciences gathered by the AMS.
Survey Finds Small Increase in Professors’ Pay NY Times, April 11, 2011. "Average faculty salaries rose 1.4 percent from 2009-10 to 2010-11, even though average pay decreased at 30 percent of colleges and universities, according to the annual pay report being released Monday by the American Association of University Professors."
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."
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."
Science Salaries by Discipline, 2005 Salaries of scientists collected from salary.com
Salary of recent S&E doctorate recipients 1–4 years after receiving degree: 2003 Data from the NSF's Survey of Doctorate Recipients.
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."
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,
ACS Salary Survey, 2002 Salaries for chemists in academia and industry.
Money Pit by Patti See, Salon Magazine, June 2, 1999. "When a university faculty union distributes the salary list, public record becomes private hell."
Faculty Median Salaries - HigherEdJobs "Results of the 2006-07 National Faculty Salary Survey conducted by The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR)."
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.
SalaryExpert.com "The most comprehensive salary site on the Internet, offering free wage, benefit, and cost-of-living survey information."