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Asked by feet442pan on 9 Nov 2021.
Question: whats your yearly income for a professional scientist?
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Thomas Nicol answered on 9 Nov 2021:
It varies a bit depending on where you live and work and how many years of experience you have. There are also some differences between academic and industrial positions. However, an early post-doc position at my University is £33-40k.
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Dapeng Wang answered on 9 Nov 2021:
It depends on the career stage and working in the academia or industry.
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Chris Pyatt answered on 9 Nov 2021:
Trainees on the Scientist Training Programme in the NHS are paid at ‘Band 6’, currently around 32k. Once qualified they move up to ‘Band 7’ which is 37-45k depending on experience.
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Craig Anderson answered on 9 Nov 2021:
This is a question that lots of people don’t like to answer but I feel is important to discuss. During my PhD 10 years ago, I received a stipend of £12,500, which was tax free and enough to do okay on. The PhD students in my lab at the moment are on much more than that and live a nicer lifestyle than I used to.
My first postdoctoral position was for the government in Australia and I started on $78,000, which was almost £40,000. I was able to travel lots and live well. When I moved back to the UK, I took another position that only paid about £28.000. In a more senior role, I’m on £40,000 a year.
My boss will be on more than £65,000 a year.
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Stephenie Purvis answered on 9 Nov 2021:
As a trainee, I’m currently employed as a ‘Band 6’ in the NHS which starts at around £31,000 (more if you’re in London) but once I qualify I will be promoted to a ‘Band 7’ which starts at around £38,000
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Julia Spindel answered on 9 Nov 2021:
I get paid ~ £32,000 a year as a Postdoctoral (post-PhD) Research Scientist in Cambridge. During my Wellcome Trust funded PhD I was paid between ~£21,000 and ~£25,000 a year for four years including a year of masters study, which is a lot more than most other PhD programmes pay so I was very lucky.
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Clara Cieza-Borrella answered on 9 Nov 2021:
Yeah, it depends. At the University, lecturers (who are also scientists) are in band 7 which is £42-£55 but then you can be promoted to senior lecturer and then to professor who earn much more money.
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Matthew Brown answered on 9 Nov 2021:
The salary depends on a lot on your level when I first started as a research assistant (requires a BSc degree) my annual salary was around £28,000. After I finish my PhD, a post-doc position will likely pay around £33,000-38,0000.
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Jessica Yang answered on 9 Nov 2021:
I am in a research assistant role (without a PhD), which can range from between £22-30k depending on where you are/experience. If you go on to get a PhD you can get between £33-45 in academia as an early career researcher – also depending on experience and where you are though! My understanding is that professional scientists in industry earn more.
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Yannick Comoglio answered on 9 Nov 2021:
Hi,
As post-doctoral researcher I earn £2400 per month.
When I was a PhD student I earned (In France) €1600 per month. -
Cobus Smit answered on 9 Nov 2021:
An early post-doc position at my University is £33-40k per year. It comes with 35 leave days (which includes bank holidays), pension and some optional salary sacrifice schemes.
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Holly Kerr answered on 9 Nov 2021:
My PhD income is around £20k a year and untaxed, going up to £24k by year 4. Like other folk have said, this is much more than most PhD incomes.
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Isabelle Boothman answered on 9 Nov 2021:
For a PhD, it depends on what organisation is funding your PhD. The PhD programme I am on is the Genomics CRT which is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. My annual stipend is 18,500 euro.
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Frank Schubert answered on 9 Nov 2021:
It depends on your career stage. As an established faculty member my salary is now ~£60k, but it took a while to get there.
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Jeffrey O'Callaghan answered on 9 Nov 2021:
As a PhD student in Ireland, you can get a stipend of 18.5K euro annually, tax free.
As a researcher your salary depends on your experience and your source of funding. In general, you can expect to start at nearly 40k euro with a PhD degree and 30k without. You can progress to a senior research fellow with a lot of experience and with some experience in getting your own funding from grants.
In Ireland, the salary scales are recommended to follow the below guidelines (click on researcher salary scales) -
Frankie Macrae answered on 9 Nov 2021:
The first scientist job I got after university was the scientist training programme in the NHS. If you work for the NHS you get paid in a ‘band’ and the exact amount you earn depends on your years of experience and your performance. I started on about 25k as a trainee at band 6, but I think this has increased since then. Once I was qualified this went up to 30-40k (band 7).
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David Clarke answered on 9 Nov 2021:
I am currently training on NHS band 6 (£30,400 ish per year) however once qualified I will be on band 7 (£40,000 ish per year).
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Madeleine Heep answered on 9 Nov 2021:
It really depends on your position and how far along you are in your career.
During my Bachelors and Masters I did not earn anything. I am a PhD student now and get a stipend of ~15k (tax-free) per year. I think this is the standard for most UK PhD students, but some are lucky and receive a bigger stipend. In any case, it is enough to cover all my expenses and I still manage to save a little bit. -
Becky Cohen answered on 10 Nov 2021:
When I was doing my PhD, I was lucky in getting a scholarship which included a £16,000 per year stipend for 3 years that I was there. This was more than the usual PhD stipend, which at the time was around £12,500 per year. Now that I’m on the NHS scientist training programme, I’m paid the equivalent of a band 6 salary which started at £30,400 per year and increases slightly every year that I work there due to the ‘agenda for change’ scheme. When I qualify next year, this will increase to a band 7 salary.
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Magdalena Sutcliffe answered on 10 Nov 2021:
I am a postdoctoral scientist, 8 years after my PhD and I make £38 k a year, I work at a public research institute
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Rafael Galupa answered on 10 Nov 2021: last edited 10 Nov 2021 12:00 pm
At the moment I get 36k yearly, as a postdoctoral researcher (3 years after my PhD)
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Joaquin de Navascues answered on 10 Nov 2021:
This is an important question. As many people have mentioned, that depends on your role as a scientist, the level of education and experience and the industry you work in.
For academic scientists, our salaries are usually in the public domain. You can find the pay structure of my University (just as an example) here:
https://www.essex.ac.uk/jobs/salary
If I am not mistaken, a graduate research assistant would be grades 5/6, a postdoctoral (with a PhD) research associate would be grades 6/7 depending on experience, a lecturer is grade 8, senior lecturer grade 9 and professor grade 10.You can have a look at scientist salaries in industry, for instance, here:
https://uk.indeed.com/career/scientist/salaries
This may make academic salaries look very good, but the truth is that very few people among those with PhDs manage to get to grade 8 or higher – see figure 1.6 of this report from the Royal Society:
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/publications/2010/scientific-century/Importantly, PhD candidates annual income is ~£15K pa if their funder follows UKRI guidelines:
https://mrc.ukri.org/skills-careers/studentships/studentship-guidance/minimum-stipend-and-allowances/
(Which is very low in my opinion, as PhD candidates are recruited among the best graduates, and they work really hard for 3-4 years on this salary).I hope this helps!
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Yasmin Dickinson answered on 10 Nov 2021:
My PhD income (which is called a stipend) funded by AstraZeneca is £22k a year and untaxed, and the income increases a little each year. I’d say this is quite a good income for a PhD student (the range for a PhD student is typically £15K – £22K a year, depending on where the university is and who is funding the research). As a research assistant you can earn between £22K – £31K depending on where you live and work.
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Mukta Deobagkar answered on 12 Nov 2021:
I work in non-clinical research settings and salary can vary depending on location and your career stage. During my Phd in India my fellowship/stipend was 20-25000 Indian Rupees per month (which is about £200-250, but cost of living was much lower and I did okay on my budget). For a first post-doc job at university, salaries start from about £30-32K and can increase as you become more senior and have more experience/responsibilities.
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Henry Jenkins answered on 12 Nov 2021:
All healthcare staff working in the NHS are on a banded pay scale (see the link below), so for as a band 6 trainee clinical scientist with less than 2 years experience, my yearly salary is £32,306.
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