Top 15 North American Institutions

FEATUREBest Places to Work 2006: Postdocs Top 15 North American Institutions Rank in 2006 Rank in 2005 Name Country No. of postdocs in the life sciences Average annual postdoc salary (or salary range) Postdoc office, assc, or advisor? 1 12 The J. David Gladstones Institutes USA 83 $51,180 Office of Postdoct

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Best Places to Work 2006: Postdocs

Top 15 North American Institutions

Rank in 2006	Rank in 2005	Name	Country	No. of postdocs in the life sciences	Average annual postdoc salary (or salary range)	Postdoc office, assc, or advisor?
1	12	The J. David Gladstones Institutes	USA	83	$51,180	Office of Postdoctoral and Graduate Affairs
2	2	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	USA	280	$38,974	Student-Postdoc Advisory Committee
3	1	US Environmental Protection Agency	USA	22	$44,119-63,980	Human Resources Management Division
4	22	Emory University	USA	470	$30,000-55,000	Office of Postdoctoral Education
5	3	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences	USA	225	$40,900-65,000	Office of Fellows' Career Development
6	40	Fox Chase Cancer Center	USA	119	$39,000	Postdoctoral Training Program
7	15	National Institute of Diabetes & Kidney Diseases	USA	325	$37,100-67,000	Office of Fellow Recruitment and Career Development
8	6	Wadsworth Center	USA	75	$37,500	Postdoctoral Coordinator
9	4 in nonUS	Dalhousie University	Canada	104	$39,710 (CAN)	Office of the Vice President Research
10	66	USDA Agricultural Research Service	USA	60	$54,000-65,000	Office of Personnel Management
11	9	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	USA	61	$53,000	Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee
12	-	Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research	USA	40	$31,700	Postgraduate Society
13	8	National Cancer Institute	USA	800-900	$41,000-56,000	Fellows and Young Investigators Association
14	-	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	USA	34	$35,000	Society of Fellows
15	28	Vanderbilt University	USA	530	$38,000-40,000	Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Top 15 Institutions Outside of North America

Rank in 2006	Rank in 2005	Name	Country	No. of postdocs in the life sciences	Average annual postdoc salary (or salary range)	Postdoc office, assc, or advisor?
1	45	Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research	Switzerland	60	84,000 CHF	Postdoc Association (elected representative)
2	-	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	UK	125	£25,000-30,000	none
3	11	University of Bergen	Norway	100	372,000 NOK	none
4	26	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel	127	93,600 NIS	Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
5	-	Pasteur Institute	France	210	?25,200	Postdoc Office, and StaPa Trainees Assc
6	1	Umea Plant Science Center	Sweden	35	180,000-210,000 SEK	one part-time advisor
7	23	University of Dundee	UK	205	£20,004-43,850	SLS Postdoc Association
8	-	University of Basel Biozentrum	Switzerland	115	63,000-85,056 CHF	none
9	-	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	204	78,000-86,000 CHF	Academic Association of Scientific Staff
10	60	University of Manchester	UK	322	£20,044-30,002	Postdoc career development program
11	3	The Netherlands Cancer Institute	Netherlands	102	?40,000-60,000	Postdoc Committee
12	24	Catholic University of Leuven	Belgium	N/A	N/A	N/A
13	46	University of Helsinki	Finland	300	?33,600-36,000	none
14	61	University of Nottingham	UK	59	£23,457-33445	none
15	35	University of Edinburgh	UK	347	£20,044-43,850	none