Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

Don't know what stipend your students get but mine was below median UK income - even worse it was halved for the first year so I had to work while studying. In any case when you work out the hourly rate based on time worked it is far far below minimum wage.

About 17.5k, which is tax free so equiv to about a 20k income before tax. At minimum wage, 6 weeks holiday that would be about a 50h week. I don't want to suggest that this is good enough by the way. I've been arguing to make it more. But it's good to be realistic.

Imperial entry level postdoc salary more than 91% of the country.

Do we know how it compares to people with the same level of education? (Of course we can also debate whether pay should be correlated with education level...)

That should exist but would be a bit more work to dig out. I also strongly disagree that you should be paid more for being more educated, but I know this is a minority position along academics.

I definitely agree. I’ve found education levels and ability doesn’t correlate well at all. Education is just a signal for ability to work, but correlates terribly. The big 4 are moving away from this model because degree performance has awful correlation with output.

How do you define output though? That's a whole other thorny question.