NIH panel calls for fewer, better-paid postdocs in bid to halt loss of scientists to industry
The NIH panel called for raising minimum postdoc salaries to $70,000 — an increase of more than 20% — and adjusting wages for annual inflation.
A National Institutes of Health working group on Friday recommended a sizable increase in salaries of postdoctoral researchers and a cap on the length of the position in an effort to secure the future of academia’s research workforce amid an unprecedented exodus of young life scientists to industry.
The group called for raising minimum postdoc salaries to $70,000 beginning next year — an increase of more than 20% — and adjusting wages for annual inflation, as well as limiting postdoctoral work to no more than five years in most cases.
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