• Question: how much do you make an hour, possibly a year?

    Asked by Denis on 23 Sep 2025. This question was also asked by Master Iysa.
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      Luke Fountain answered on 23 Sep 2025:

      This is a good question. In my current job I have a yearly salary of around $72,000, which is about £55,000. This is a little higher than average for my current job, which is a post-doctoral researcher – that’s just a fancy way of saying I do science research after getting my PhD. It’s a little higher than average because I work for NASA and not a University, but that is often the case with science jobs, it just depends who you work for and what part of the world you work in!

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      Martin McCoustra answered on 23 Sep 2025:

      I earn around £80k per year plus my university tops up my pension significantly.

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      Emily Walls answered on 23 Sep 2025:

      I’m still at the early stages of my career; PhD students are given a stipend or salary of approximately £21,000 a year tax-free (so you get all of it!) for 3.5 years.

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      Niamh Topping answered on 24 Sep 2025:

      I’m a PhD student so I get a stipend rather than a salary (which just means I don’t get taxed on this money). The current rate is about £21,000 a year. I also earn a bit more by teaching alongside my research

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      Vicky Fawcett answered on 25 Sep 2025:

      I earn ~£33,000 a year as a research associate in the UK.

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