Sell your soul to industry? Get over yourself, there's some great basic research done in a lot of companies. Don't be such a snob, and it's not like the salaries are astronomically better than post-doc's in academia..just a little, which is a good thing right?
I work at a multinational drug company (one of the big ones) we do tonnes of research 95% of which is never published for fear of giving an edge other companies which is fair enough but I think does lend the moral high ground to academia. I just cant be a lab tech anymore hence the PHD and pay cut!!
I work at a big pharma company too and do plenty of basic research...that, yeah get's published. Depends on it's merit/quality, not simply "we won't tell anyone in case Merck/Pfizer/J&J is looking over our shoulder". As for moral high ground, without knowing what you consider 'moral' to begin with I hesitate to comment further on that statement.
I know a load of people who got graduate positions at a VERY VERY big pharma company (I think we all know which one I mean) and they were all starting on 24K (£). I guess starting with a PhD would bump it up to at least 29K? This was a couple of years ago so must have gone up a bit by now.
PhD studentships sponsored by industry usually have a slightly higher salary. So you could expect to start at about £20-22K. Post-docs in industry start at £26K, if your good that could go to £29K but that's the high end of the scale esp. if your coming straight from PhD, more likely to get that if you've already done ~2yrs post-doc. Depends on the position largely. If you are thinking of post docs, and doing so in industry, the Marie Curie fellowships pay well and you qualify for the benefits that regular full time employees get.
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