Best Places to Work 2010: Postdocs - Top US Institutions

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Rank Institution No. of Postdocs Salary Range Postdoc Resources Benefits*
1 Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY 20 $36,000–$43,000 Postdoc association Health
2 Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK 63 $41,200–$61,800 Postdoc association, professional development program Health, retirement
3 Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 138 $48,658–$51,764 Postdoc association Health, retirement
4 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 42 starts at $55,000 Postdoc office, professional development program Health, retirement
5 Genentech, South San Francisco, CA 125 $51,000–$54,000 None Health
6 Rocky Mountain Laboratory, NIH, Hamilton, MT 57 $43,100–$61,700 Postdoc association Health
7 University of Colorado Denver, CO 275–300 $37,368–$89,209 Postdoc office, advisory committee, postdoc association Health
8 Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 78** $55,000–$80,000 Postdoc professional development program Health, retirement
9 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA 74 $36,000–$115,000 (average 56,000) Postdoc office, postdoc association Health
10 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 429*** declined to provide information Postdoc office Health
11 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 210 $52,800–$95,700 Postdoc office, postdoc committee, postdoc association Health, retirement
12 J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 104 $42,400–$75,000 Postdoc office, advisory committee, and advisor Health, retirement
13 The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 38 $37,368–$55,676 Postdoc office Health, retirement
14 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, PA 115 $39,360–$51,552 Postdoc office Health, retirement
15 Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 32 $37,000–$51,000 Postdoc association, postdoc alumni group Health, retirement

Best Places to Work 2010: Postdocs - Top International Institutions

Rank Institution No. of Postdocs Salary Range Salary Range (USD) Postdoc Resources Benefits*
1 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Horsham, United Kingdom 9 £33,500 $51,564 Postdoc office, professional development program Health (private)
2 University College London, United Kingdom 200 £34,500–£57,900 $53,103-$84,503 Postdoc professional and personal development program Health, pension
3 University of Dundee, United Kingdom 278 £28,839–£43,622 $44,390-$67,144 Postdoc association, professional development program National health, pension
4 Umeå University, Sweden 150 27,000–31,000 SEK $44,487-$51,077 Postdoc office, professional development program Health, retirement
5 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland 41 starts at 83,400 CHF $76,919 Postdoc office, professional development program National health, pension
6 Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland 102 66,600–88,00 CHF $61,425-$81,162 Postdoc association National pension
7 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 909 £27,183–£46,278 $41,840-$71,232 Postdoc association, professional development program Health (option of national or private), pension
8 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal 56 €17,940–€29,248 $24,253-$39,540 Postdoc association National health
9 Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 426 23,000–49,000 SEK $37,896-$80,735 Postdoc association, professional development program Health
10 University of Toronto, Canada 1475 $41,750 $39,706 Postdoc association Health

*Retirement denotes a plan with a match from the employer **includes 12 in Emeryville, Calif. ***for the entire Mayo Clinic system