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I have to disagree.  I am a scientist (not an engineer, but the salaries are similar in my field vs. EE).  I make more -- much more than any public school teacher.  We hire people with MS's at about 75K -80K, and PhD's at about 100K.  I am making closer to 200K.

That is decent money.[/quote]

Wow.  I'm a physicist, top schools, barely pulling 100k.  Wish I knew where you were...I'd come work for you![/quote]

How much experience?  Can you bring in your own work/market yourself?

For me, I am cleared, 20 years experience (post PhD), and I am able to define solutions to critical problems -- which leads to larger scale systems.  Generally, my ideas bring in about 5 mil per year in revenue (not all to me, of course).[/quote]

Yeah, but which company and industry? Are we talking big pharm here or something? Dupont? Oil?

A maxed out GS14 is about the highest I ever see scientists go, and that's rare. Usually GS13 unless they go admin.[/quote]

Since the 90's, the gov't outsources most science, as they can not pay competitive wages.  I make significantly more than a GS 15 step 10.  I understand that they have more security, but most of the real work is done by companies.[/quote]

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