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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Senior researchers are a dime a dozen. It's much harder to find folks with technical skills who want to work at a non-profit instead of Google.  I know RAND looks at comparable salaries when setting ranges.[/quote]

How do you know? Is RAND HR monitoring this thread?[/quote]

I used to work there as a researcher. Definitely not HR.  FFRDCs to do comps pretty carefully when doing government work to justify salaries.  What can researchers make in academia?  What do other organizations pay? That said the comps are not Wall Street.

It was always harder to find folks for the tech support side, and hard to keep them.  In Silicon Valley they're the stars and at FFRDCs they are make it possible for researchers to do their work.

I know folks at all the local FFRDCs. Mostly really smart and mission driven people.  A lot of them could have made more money in other organizations.    [/quote]

The job posting asked for a PhD in math or ops research. These people are not a dime a dozen.[/quote]

I'm not PP, but part of the issue is that being a senior researcher at RAND is much higher-prestige both within the institution and outside of it than any of the other positions. It also offers more external and future opportunities. You can get researchers at a discount because of that. Not so for other positions. [/quote]

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