2008 Life Sciences Salary Survey

TheScientist 2008 Life Science Salary Survey Are you making too much money, or too little? Could you make more? Our US salary data in the life sciences can help. By Edyta Zielinska For additional salary data by job title, location and gender, visit https://www.the-scientist.com/salarysurvey/ When Pfizer announced it was closing its Ann Arbor, Michigan, facility in January of last year, Alla Karnovsky, one of more than 2,000 employees aff

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When Pfizer announced it was closing its Ann Arbor, Michigan, facility in January of last year, Alla Karnovsky, one of more than 2,000 employees affected, shuddered. For the second time in nine years, she was faced with the decision of whether to relocate her family or find new employment.

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Karnovsky, a computational chemist, had offers from other Pfizer locations, but she had already moved her family once from Kalamazoo to Ann Arbor because of work, when her employer, Pharmacia, was absorbed by Pfizer. This time around, she was less willing to move, despite a ...

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Edyta Zielinska
Edyta Zielinska was a senior editor at The Scientist from 2007 to 2013, where she worked closely with scientific illustrators to develop accompanying graphics to illuminate complex concepts.
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