• Question: -how much do you get payed?

    Asked by Eliot-JJ to Julia, Kieran, Hugh, Emily on 7 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by dalta10.
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      Julia answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Not much, to be honest. The salary of a PhD student is just enough to cover rent, bills, food and a little bit of leisure.

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      Hugh Manning answered on 15 Nov 2018: last edited 15 Nov 2018 11:30 pm

      Because scientific research is usually paid for by the government through tax payers money you don’t earn as much as if you worked for a private company. If you become a scientist and do research in a university you aren’t going to become rich, you do it because of your love of science and discovery, of course if you invent something which you can patent or start up your own company you can make quite a lot of money!

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