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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do know that educational attainment and salary are not always correlated, yes? For example, PhD faculty members have lots of degrees but aren't going to be that high on the income scale. [/quote] Yep. I make about 95K w/a Ph.D. That's with 5 years in a Ph.D. program followed by 4 years postdoc at 2 different institutions, including one Ivy. In my last position, I was making 50K, in an expensive area of the country. Most of my peers in tenure-track positions make ~60-70K. We're in it for the love, I guess. Making a lot of money was never a driving factor for me, but now that we live in DC and may need to do private for high school, I realize that money isn't everything, but it does count for something. Luckily my spouse is doing okay (2 degrees including MD, makes about ~185K), so we should be able to make that happen. However, we likely won't be having more than one kid. Them's the breaks.[/quote]
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