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Re:My experience as a Unit-18 Berkeley Lecturer by et-al on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:56AM (#31476052)
The author did work in the private sector, then went to academia and tried to make it work, and now went back to private. They clearly laid out why without much complaining.

My take is that Pamela is championing for higher pay for Unit-18 faculty. $107k sounds like a lot of money until they break it down. And these are the folks prepping the future generation of our field. Pay them more.

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Re:My experience as a Unit-18 Berkeley Lecturer by j7ake on Monday May 23, 2022 @07:11AM (#31477521)
107k sounds really high actually.

The salaries shouldn’t be compared with private, but should be compared with other non faculty salaries within the UC system, or across universities in the world.

A faculty in London, Paris, or other high CoL city would love a pay boost to 107k.

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Re:My experience as a Unit-18 Berkeley Lecturer by odd_perfect_num on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:30AM (#31478130)
London and Paris are low CoL relative to the Bay Area.
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Re:My experience as a Unit-18 Berkeley Lecturer by shuckles on Monday May 23, 2022 @11:54AM (#31480624)
Not really. London is not much less expensive, and I’m not familiar with Paris but it seems roughly as expensive as London at a glance. The big difference is many costs, especially for young families, are socialized in those two places. For example, health insurance.
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