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Biology doesn’t pay that well

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Like Murphy said, Mother Nature is a bitch.

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With your coffee … From Nature:

Biologists lose out in post-PhD earnings analysis

One year after graduating, doctorates in mathematics, computer sciences and engineering raked in the highest amounts — US$65,000 a year on average, with the 60% of engineers who took industry jobs earning around $80,000 a year. Those with biology PhDs earned the least, around $36,000 per year, perhaps because of the effect of many taking postdoctoral fellowships — only 26% of biology graduates went straight into industry jobs.

More.

Some biologists go into wildlife management which is said to be awful pay-wise because wild animals don’t lobby or co-operate.

See also: Tales from a wildlife biologist: Bears have fun when you’re not there  So the field does have its rewards.

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MATH?? What are they counting? The list seems to make sense. It is a computer world. What do evolutionary biologists , different species from biologists remember, make and who pays them?? There are many serious problems in these things aside from the points here. I can see capitalism being behind the pay but for some things its political and social agendas.Robert Byers
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"Some biologists go into wildlife management which is said to be awful pay-wise" But they have the compensation of being able to work in wildlife management. Wild Kingdom original episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaAoApqd570&list=PLA1UeRQ_bbVtaBpPNaAmIr0IBeikxJzMM When I used to watch this program as a kid, I didn't realize that old as he looks, Marlin Perkins must have been in amazing physical condition to do some of the things he did on camera. When I was in graduate school they sent me to Asilomar to a conference ... I learned more by sneaking out of the seminars and walking along the beach looking at the tide pools.Jim Smith
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But, but, but... biology (and climate studies) in academia are all a giant fraud where well-educated booksmart eggheads enrich themselves on the government's dole. Or so I heard. I guess it shows just how dumb those folks really are.hrun0815
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