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While people are occasionally hesitant about asking salary questions, I've not run into anyone whose adverse to discussing the mechanics of consulting with a colleague getting started. …

This is such a hugely open ended question that I was quite tempted to vote to close it - because the core of this answer is What kind of PhD? and Compared to what? To use two edge cases: Getting a …

Salary negotiations create an unlevel playing field among the members of my lab, and that's not a message I'm willing to send by "sweetening the pot" for one postdoc vs. another. …

Universities aren't a free market: Often, universities have salary guidelines set by the legislature if they're public, different compensation schemes to promote people trying for full professor, other … constraints, etc. that mean their salary determination is not just "What the market can bear." …

There is no fixed "postdoc salary", so by extension there is no way to inherently adjust for cost of living. … The NIH postdoc salary level (which is probably the closest thing to a 'fixed' postdoc salary in the U.S.) is adjusted for years of experience, but isn't necessarily adjusted for cost of living. …

In my experience (U.S., both East and West coasts) where postdocs are state employees, they will get whatever nominal raise is given across the board to state employees, if such a raise occurs. This i …

Does your salary increase automatically? It depends. Tenure may or may not come alongside a promotion (but often does). …

My current institution only covers 75% of my salary, so covering the other 25% is technically "paying myself more", but it's capped. …

For example, the University of North Carolina system has all their salary information available to the public: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/24/1011452/university-employee-salaries.html Look up … They also break down State and Non-State funding so you can get an idea of how much of the salary is hard money and how much of it is based on grant support. …

"I would like to see a formal written offer before we move forward." Any department that's unwilling to do that is sending up huge, brightly colored red flags. With fancy gold tassels. And embroidery …

One way to look at this is actually look at your question slightly differently - what assumptions do NSF vs. NIH funding make about who you are, and why they're funding you. The NIH model is clearly …

I have 4 years of relevant work experience in my area of research. This may or may not be relevant. It will very much depend on your cohort - for example, there are programs where everyone has wo …

For students funded via the NIH and similar mechanisms (CDC and AHRQ come to mind), there are standard rates for what graduate students are paid. This is a fairly extensive treatment on the subject fo …

I have seen some grants that implicitly assume an MDs salary is higher than a PhD's salary when in the same R01-type grant application, but this usually also involves a comparison of senior vs. junior … MDs do have the option of making up for some "gaps" in funding with taking on more clinical duties whereas a PhD might have to take a salary hit, or cut back in other areas. …

A few perspectives on this question, from someone who has had one society membership paid for by their university, and several not: You would not be asked to pay out of your own pocket to do the j …