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Asked by anon-354024 on 7 Mar 2023. This question was also asked by anon-354023, anon-353999, anon-349841.
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Emmett McKenna answered on 7 Mar 2023:
I currently make around £46,000 a year to work 10am – 6pm Monday to Friday in a nice environment on a university campus. I also have 32 paid holiday days a year I can take when I want on top of all the national holidays.
In my last job I got paid around£85,000 a year averaging around 60 hours a week which included weekends in a factory. I did 12 hour shifts working days (7am – 7pm) for two weeks and then nights (7pm – 7am) for two weeks. I could only take holiday during factory shutdowns (1 week at Easter and Christmas + 2 weeks in the middle of August).
I took a significant pay cut in my current role so that I could enjoy my life, but there are lots of good options for science work in terms of salary/country depending on the exact field you work in.
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Arno Kraft answered on 8 Mar 2023:
At University, how much money you make is usually a closely guarded secret 😃. Colleagues don’t know what the others earn. Some people in Finance or HR might know. Funnily enough, even I don’t know. A portion of my monthly pay goes into additional pension contributions (I am getting older and it reduces taxes), some into savings, and with the rest I can live quite comfortable. I think it’s close to £60,000. Industry chemists probably earn more. Mind you, when we had a reunion 20 years after first starting University, my classmates from industry all had grey hair. I didn’t at the time and was accused of having a comfortable job with no stress 😃. Money isn’t all. Doing what you enjoy to do makes up a lot.
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Graeme Barker answered on 8 Mar 2023:
I make around £45,000 a year, though as a fairly junior lecturer, I’m near the bottom of the pay scale – some of my colleagues will earn considerably more. University lecturers in the UK are paid according to the same scale across the country, so you can roughly tell what someone is paid from their job title!
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Graeme Dykes answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Salary depends on the role which you have and the responsibilities associated with it.
Usually you have to build up experience and skills to get the higher paid jobs -
Craig Johnston answered on 8 Mar 2023:
Although my job title is different (Royal Society University Research Fellow) my pay is equivalent to a University lecturer. After tax and pension contributions the amount I actually receive is about £2800 per month.
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Jade Markham answered on 8 Mar 2023:
I earn around 55K. I work 8 till 4 Mon – Thurs and finish at 3:30 on a Friday.
I get 25 days holiday a year.
I get private health insurance for my family.
If I was to start a family, they have good benefits for maternity leave. -
Rebecca Woods answered on 8 Mar 2023:
As someone who had just completed my PhD, I was looking at jobs in universities for research or teaching around the 34-37K mark. In university settings there’s different grades and within each grade are different points on the salery scale which you can move up with experience.
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Martin McCoustra answered on 8 Mar 2023:
When I took my first lecturing position in Norwich, I was paid £11,980 per year before tax. That was in 1988. Now as a full professor I’m earning something like £75,000 to 80,000 per year before tax. But that includes a big chunk of money that my university puts into my pension pot.
Salaries for university staff aren’t that bad but you can earn more as a scientist in industry.
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Grace Roper answered on 9 Mar 2023:
As a funded PhD student I get a ‘stipend’, this is a tax-free allowance for living costs. Currently all UKRI PhD students outside get £17,668 per year – this is enough to live on especially as you don’t pay council tax.
However, I am looking forward to getting a proper job for a bit more money!
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