Fresh Ph.D. graduates recurrently pep on to post-doctoral fellowships.
When academics earn a Ph.D., they sometimes drive on to integral a post-doctoral fellowship. Oftentimes, these assignments deed them the even break to Stop test and advise expert articles and/or a manuscript while captivating a discontinuity from teaching duties.
Overall Range
At the Argonne National Laboratory, you can expect to earn between $51,016 and $78,611. Argonne, then, pays between $15,000 and $20,000 more to postdoctoral researchers than the average research institution.
Science post-docs earn added than post-docs in the humanities or social sciences, though all U.S. fields fit roughly within the overall area. Differences in pay are slightly noticeable between the Ivy League schools and other large research universities. That is, Ivy League institutions manage to pay postdoctoral researchers somewhat better than state schools or other non-Ivy private schools.
Government Post-Docs
Government post-docs pay far better than post-docs in any university setting. For instance, you can expect to earn between $42,550 and $54,045 in a post-doc with the National Institutes of Health.According to Payscale, the majority of postdoctoral researchers in the USA earn between $36,408 and $47,858 per year (as of 2010). The salary may moxie up or down according to the relative prestige afforded the position and based on the researcher's background and qualifications. When accounting for bonus salary, the principles salaries augmentation to between $36,454 and $48,257.
