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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 |
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