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Re:Education Pays: 2008 Unemployment, Pay, and Education Level by yummyfajitas on Sunday June 07, 2009 @04:35PM (#646314)
There aren't that many tenured professors making six figures. I suspect the PhD numbers are high due to the quants making 7-8 figures.

The Ph.D. distribution is probably concentrated towards the bottom with a few spikes (guys like D.E. Shaw) raising the average.

Re:Education Pays: 2008 Unemployment, Pay, and Education Level by nostrademons on Monday June 08, 2009 @12:27PM (#647533)
Well, this is a median, not a mean, so the quants can't raise it that much. A bifurcated distribution with a couple peaks could though, which is why I was thinking tenured professors + industrial researchers + Googlers on one end, with post-docs on the other.