Salaries chemistry graduates

TABLE 11.1 Median Annual Salaries of 2006 Chemistry Graduates with Full-Time Employment in Industry and Less than 1 Year of Technical Work Experience Prior to Graduation, and Median Base Salaries for all Chemists with Full-Time Permanent Jobs in Industry as of March 1, 2006... 

Starting Salaries of Chemistry Graduates in Constant Dollars, 1994-2007... 

Academe. In academe, more interviewees at historically white colleges and universities cited difficulties associated with tenure, and promotion beyond the associate professor level. Indeed, many interviewees who took non-academic appointments expressed concern about pursuing an academic career because of the subjectivity of the tenure process and the lower salary levels relative to those in industry. Several chemists at research universities said that they were unable to recruit top graduate students in their department - even when they had funded projects. In fact, some interviewees claimed to have knowledge of well-trained chemists leaving academic chemistry out of fmstration because their research was stymied without students. These claims require further investigation. 

Berzelius (Figure 6.4) studied medicine, but even as a student he was performing chemical experiments in his spare time. After graduation he worked as a physician to the poor in several areas of Stockholm at a very low salary, but continued his chemical investigations in conjunction with Wilhelm HIsInger (1766-1852). They performed important work on the chemical effects of an electric current (Chapter 7). In 1807 Berzelius was appointed professor of medicine and pharmacy at Stockholm, and following a reorganisation in 1810 he became professor of chemistry and pharmacy. 

ACS, 1984b. American Chemical Society, Office of Statistical Seivicts. Starting Salaries 1983 Analysis of the American Chemical Society s Survey of Graduates in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Washington, D.C. American Chemical Society. 

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