Academic degree salary

Salary calculator. Another source of salary information for industrial scientists working in the United States is an online calculator posted by R D Magazine. To reach this calculator, visit www.rdmag.com. The calculator requires your age, scientific discipline, years of experience, and highest academic degree. It also needs the number of employees in the kind of company that interests you and the state where you would like to work. When you enter this information, the calculator displays an annual salary based on a survey of magazine subscribers. This figure may exceed what a newcomer can expect to earn, for the respondents are seasoned pros. ... 

Starting Salaries 1996 reports starting wages by divisions of the chemical industry like plastics and pharmaceuticals. It also presents them by the highest academic degree granted to employed chemists who completed the questionnaire. Salaries 1996 analyzes chemists employment rates and other data. Staff writers at ACS excerpt both reports for periodical publications like Chemical and Engineering News, Today s Chemist at Work, and even the British journal Chemistry and Industry. Chemical libraries offer all these periodicals to readers. The survey typically harvests more information than the reports can hold, so the ACS Ofiice of Career Services makes the overflow available to inquirers. 

Figure 10 Median starting salary paid chemists belonging to the American Chemical Society. The salaries are grouped by highest degree held. The ACS survey covered a sampling of all types of employers (academic, industry, and government) and all disciplines of chemistry. The ACS reports medians, rather than averages, in order to suppress the distortion that could result from excessively small or overly large salaries that some respondents might claim. Data from Ref. 21.

Werner grew to be a broad-shouldered boy with light hair and blue eyes, and at the age of 18 he was called on to perform his military duty. On his return from military service he completed work for his doctoral degree (although he failed some courses in mathematics). He qualified to become a privatdozent, a lecturer without a salary who could collect fees from students— the first mng on the academic ladder. He then spent the next 2 years working as an unsalaried lecturer and puzzling over the problem of molecular compounds and valence. 

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