As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for change in academia

Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by borroka on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:40PM (#31755595)

I did my last postdoc in another European country more or less 8 years ago and my salary was 1700 euros per month (after taxes). Very limited funds for traveling or going to conferences. That was barely livable, considering it is temporary money, you cannot ask for any mortgage, cannot plan any future and you are often starting to have gray hair (or a full head of gray hair).

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by tetris11 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:18PM (#31756166)

Postdoc in Germany sees around 2400± after tax per month

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by tcpekin on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @05:50PM (#31759903)

Is that correct? I am a postdoc at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and I'm at the TV-L 13 level, Stufe 3, which is ~3300 post tax.

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by pfortuny on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @02:04PM (#31756826)

For how long? That is the question.

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by borroka on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:30PM (#31761592)

Mine was in Spain, where I am from. And I also had kids at the time, which made the lack of life planning even more dangerous.

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