Not exact matches
Or perhaps institutions will come up with something truly radical — say, attracting
scientists by
offering good
salaries and appealing career ladders that don't involve faculty status.
Furthermore, even as the industry struggles for survival,
scientists and engineers who make it through the nation's few remaining nuclear energy programs draw top
salaries and many job
offers (see sidebar).
Even as
scientists in other fields struggle to find jobs, computational biologists are being snapped up as soon as they graduate with lucrative
salary offers, says Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine and director of the biomedical informatics training program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
«He says the idea is to
offer salary support and independence to
scientists who hold less high - profile but essential jobs, such as managing a core facility or doing informatics within a principal investigator's lab.
In particular, NSF is thinking about asking Congress for special hiring authority, a mechanism that would allow the agency to bring in senior
scientists at
salaries above what they can typically
offer federal workers.
The group was formed partly to enable the Russians to drive harder bargains with prospective employers — Western companies frequently
offer very low rates of pay to Russian
scientists, who have become desperate for research funds and adequate
salaries since the demise of the Soviet Union.
After a little investigating, I discovered that these types of companies were hungry for
scientists and
offered many nice benefits, such as 40 - to 50 - hour weeks, higher
salaries, paid vacations, and medical, dental, and pension plans.
«Rising demand is also positively impacting
salaries: Data
scientists received an average of $ 133,000 for initial
salary offers, which is 5 % higher than last quarter,» the report's authors write.
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