THE STATE OF SCIENCE SALARIES

ABSTRACT

[...]at the Federal University of Technology in Paraná, Haas says her tenure-track position offers some security but she has little opportunity for advancement. Fewer than half of respondents to Nature's 2021 salary and satisfaction survey reported feeling positively about their career prospects, a clear sign of pessimism at a time of widespread funding shortages, intense competition for jobs and the disruptions of a global pandemic. Andie Hall, a research assistant at the Natural History Museum in London, is unsure about her long-term prospects. A biomedical postdoc in the United States stated "I'm hopeful that [the pandemic] will result in more funding opportunities in biomedical sciences, but I also think it has significantly slowed down any research that is not related to SARS-CoV-2."