Timeline for Negotiating PhD stipend
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 21, 2017 at 5:02 | vote | accept | Manish | ||
| Jan 18, 2017 at 16:59 | comment | added | Hobbes | Further, you don't accept a job and then negotiate pay. Check the document you signed when you accepted. If it outlines the specific amount of the fellowship for the first year, this isn't even up for debate. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 16:57 | comment | added | Hobbes | @lighthousekeeper, The same for Norway. It seems like Europe in general considers the PhD to be more of a profession (like any other job) than the US. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 16:45 | comment | added | Hobbes | @DanRomik, first day of orientation when I got to grad school (US), all the grad students were gathered in a lecture hall and the Dean of the Graduate School opened up by saying 'Leave your egos behind.' If you enter grad school thinking you are entitled to something more, you are going to have a bad time. Accept what the university gives you for that first year, negotiate later. Seems like a helpful comment to me. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 7:44 | comment | added | lighthouse keeper | @Hobbes Work experience is a particularly adequate reason to be paid more. In Germany, PhD students are often employed as research assistants and will be paid more if they have relevant work experience. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 7:18 | answer | added | sean | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 6:30 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/821605731329785856 | ||
| Jan 18, 2017 at 6:06 | answer | added | Sana | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 6:03 | comment | added | Dan Romik | @Hobbes that is a needlessly dismissive and completely unhelpful comment. Everyone might indeed think they should be paid more, but some of "everyone" might be more correct in thinking that way than others, so your statement "You are no different than anyone else" may be completely false. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 0:09 | comment | added | Hobbes | Good luck, everyone has a reason they think they should be paid more. You are no different from anyone else. Just accept what they offer you for the first year. After that, there may be some wiggle room depending on the lab/ funding. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 21:15 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | In my experience, there are both tax and salary benefits to having fellowships rather than being paid as a research/teaching assistant. Otherwise (and this may vary by field), in my field the stipends are set strictly by federal funding agencies and are not typically flexible. In some cases it might be possible to offer you multiple appointments (i.e., a fellowship+a research assistantship), but these would be special circumstances and the additional funding would come with some strings attached, like additional responsibilities. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 21:06 | answer | added | Fomite | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 6:23 | answer | added | Dan Romik | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 5:35 | comment | added | Manish | @DanRomik have accepted the offer, although the faculty funding will start only from next year. added the info the the question | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 5:35 | comment | added | aparente001 | @DanRomik - Sorry I wasn't clear. The previous comment mentioned some pay negotiations with departments where demand for students is high. I've never seen any variability in stipend amounts within a department and am wondering how to interpret your question. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 5:34 | history | edited | Manish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 5:30 | comment | added | Dan Romik | @aparente001 I'm not saying anything (and I'm not sure what you mean by "this"), just asking for more information that's relevant to the question. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 5:24 | comment | added | aparente001 | @DanRomik - It sounds like you're saying you've seen this happen in the U.S.? | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 4:22 | comment | added | Dan Romik | Have you already accepted the offer to join the PhD program? And do you have other offers? | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 4:03 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | Get multiple offers. Apply for fellowships. It's not unusual for extra pay to be offered spontaneously at good universities in departments where students are in demand. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 3:54 | history | edited | ff524 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 3:50 | history | asked | Manish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |