Median salaries of S&E early career doctorate holders vary by type of position and place of employment. Postdoctoral appointees have higher salaries at FFRDCs than at academic institutions or at the NIH IRP. At academic institutions, full-time faculty have higher salaries than other faculty, postdocs, and early career doctorate holders in other nonfaculty positions.
Median salaries of early career doctorate holders with a science and engineering degree: 2014
FFRDCs = federally funded research and development centers;
NIH IRP = National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program.
