Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

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.

Valid point. I tend to define output as number of tasks completed * perceived difficulty of task. But the capitalistic implications of output is terrible. I guess a better explanation is degree performance and ability to climb the corporate ladder aren’t well correlated.