Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
by semi-extrinsic on Friday January 09, 2015 @03:01PM
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In petroleum-related industries in Northern and Western Europe you can be looking at $70k a year after your MSc and almost 100 after your PhD. My starting salary was $68k after my MSc, worked 6 months before being given an offer I couldn't refuse to go get a PhD (unpaid leave from the company, getting a $50k/year scholarship from the government and paying zero tuition), expecting to make around $95k when I'm finished and go back to the company. This is on par with statistics I've seen for my industry. Social democracies and all that...
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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
by dredmorbius on Saturday January 10, 2015 @11:45PM
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Oh, absolute -- petroleum has skyrocketed in the past decade (though what happens as petro cos start running into capex conflicts is open, and the current price crash is likely not playing well).
But there was a long dry spell from the late 1980s through the 1990s where those jobs, especially in the US, were very, very hard to come by.
That said, I'd love to check my statements against historical salary data for the field.
Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
by Scoundreller on Saturday January 10, 2015 @01:42AM
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Norway?
Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn
by semi-extrinsic on Saturday January 10, 2015 @06:05PM
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Bingo. Though I have Danish friends (at DTU) who are not any worse off. Friends in the UK and France get less during their PhDs, but the engineering salaries before/after seem to be on par with what I said.