• Question: how much do you earn a year

    Asked by callum to Amy, Craig, Laura, Partha, Saffron on 17 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by JD sports, doggies101, Charles_Xavier_69.
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      Amy Cameron answered on 17 Jun 2015:


      I work under a pay grade for researchers with a PhD. In this category you can earn between £29 and £35 thousand a year. Not that I get all of that as I pay tax, into my pension scheme, pay off my student loan from university and into my national insurance.

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      Laura Wales answered on 17 Jun 2015:


      There are different levels of Biomedical Scientist (BMS) in NHS so it’s probably better to give you an idea of the different salaries as they are at the moment:

      Band 5 – £21,388 – £27,901 (new graduate/trainee BMS)
      Band 6 – £25,783 – £34,530 (Specialist BMS)
      Band 7 – £30,764 – £40,558 (Senior/Advanced BMS)

      There are high salaries but the ones above are generally the pay scales for scientists that do lab work.

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      Craig Doig answered on 24 Jun 2015:


      Ha ! some where in-between £30,000 – £40,000

      If you’re interested in getting paid a lot be a lawyer not a scientist 😉

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