• Question: How much salary do you earn/make?

    Asked by anon-305193 on 24 Nov 2021.
    • Photo: Michael Short

      Michael Short answered on 24 Nov 2021:

      Hi Newton, the starting salary for a Lecturer at a University outside of London is £41,526 p.a., with a small increase for every year that you are in the job.

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      Andrew McDowall answered on 24 Nov 2021:

      Hello Newton, please forgive me if I don’t give details of my own salary, but if you’d like an idea of the sort of salaries a chemist can earn then the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) carries out a a 2-yearly salary survey of its members, the headlines and some of the details of which can be found online. The latest one I can see online is for 2019, with published figures for early career chemists (who are members of the RSC and responded to the survey) earning a median salary of £33,200; the median of all RSC chemists responding being £45,500, rising to £60,000 for Chartered Chemists. There will be a great deal of variation within these figures, some earning much more, some much less. Further details need access to the full report. If your teacher is a member of the RSC and you’re interested, perhaps you could ask them to download a copy.

    • Photo: Alexander De Bruin

      Alexander De Bruin answered on 24 Nov 2021:

      I started on ~£35k when I joined immediately after my PhD, and have had raises and a promotion since, taking my salary over £40k

    • Photo: Natasha Marchant

      Natasha Marchant answered on 26 Nov 2021:

      Salary varies a lot on experience and type of job, I’m on ~£35,000 currently

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