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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH is tenure track (but not yet tenured) in the sciences. He's makes $100k though it was a hard slog to get there and he made <50K until well into his 30s.

I also am in a relatively low-paying job, and am currently reluctantly job searching to find something that pays more (which mean less flexibility and less time with our kids). We have a good life, but paying for things like a biweekly cleaner and music lessons is a stretch, and we stopped at 2 children because we  couldn't afford a third.

Pretty much all the academic couples I know are dual-earner households. You're not going to be driving a volvo unless the non-academic spouse is a much higher earner.[/quote]

Wow.  That seems a genuinely low salary for someone with a PhD in the sciences.  (Forgive me as I'm not in academia but just lurking on this thread.  I was never smart enough for a PhD -- especially in the sciences, and went to law school and now make a great salary in corporate America.)

It seems like someone with a PhD in the sciences must be brilliant and therefore could get a job in a big tech firm of some kind?[/quote]

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