PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

Re:PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover... by frumper on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:33PM (#31482145)

Looking into UC Statistics from your link gives an interesting insight.

I came away with the numbers 232k employees with earnings in 2021. https://universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-cent...

And Fall 2021 has student enrollment at 294,662. https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-...

Some quick caveats, the employee count is for a year, and the UC system has about an 8% separation rate. The employee count also includes 29k student employees. Even so, that feels like way too many employees to service that student count, a bulk of which are listed as non-student professional and support staff.

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Re:PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover... by milesskorpen on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:26PM (#31483063)

Note that these employee counts probably include whole hospital staffs (since teaching hospitals / academic medical centers are frequently part of universities).

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Re:PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover... by frumper on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:39PM (#31483260)

Yes, that is a good point. Staff employed by the hospitals are included. UC Davis alone is more than 10 thousand employees. I'd imagine a few of the other UC hospitals are also significant portions of that support staff.

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