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 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

Top 15 North American Institutions

The Scientist Staff

Feb 28, 2006