How much do you make?

Fill out our annual Salary Survey to help us calculate the most current salary data for life scientists

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While last year's Salary Survey saw drops in salaries across the board, a few select fields bucked the trend. Specifically, bioinformatics, biophysics, biotechnology, and neuroscience all saw increases in the median salaries of our respondents. Which fields will fare best this year?Take 5 minutes to tell us how you're doing in this year's Salary Survey. We'll linkurl:break it down;http://www.the-scientist.com/salarysurvey/ by life science specializations, geographic location, degree, job title and more, and report the results in our November issue this year. The more responses we get, the more robust and current the data will be. So fill out the survey today, and encourage your friends to do so as well.Click linkurl:here;https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BY3Q7MS for the survey.
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  • Jef Akst

    Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.
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