For me, I prefer salaried work, regardless of month to month variance. I'd rather just know what my pay and duties are, and take care of business than feel obligated to hang around doing nothing useful to rack up money.
Also, pretty much every job that has hourly pay is a shit job, but that's beside the point.
To be fair, we can make plenty later in our careers, it's just awful at the outset.
I have no problem with the market setting salaries based on demand in the private sector. What's fucked up, in my opinion, is that government positions aren't scaled to pay scientists with Ph.D.'s more than people with much less expertise and time investment in education.
Yeah, it varies enormously based on what you're doing. I'm fine with my current salary (a bit over two years out of grad school), but I look at what other postdocs are making and just shudder. In and of itself, the salaries basically fine after that initial step, they're plenty to live comfortably. The only thing I find galling is looking at professions that I personally have a lower opinion of (law and finance, particularly) and seeing gargantuan incomes. Oh well, I made my own bed!
Seems rather lowish. Swedens salaries for a starting position of a master in engineering should be abit higher than in Finland. Here, they can expect about 36k euro minimum as a novice, with about a 15-25% increase in the first year.
That's very low for robotics
Made me look up what annual pay for my profession would be once I got finished (Assuming it would be the same area.) Looks like for Software development it is an average of $86,000 a year, with Chicago's annual being around $100,000. Kind of glad I switched over to this over Culinary ;D
Frankly, that's not very high. But it all depends on where in the US you are. I make 80k+ and am still paycheck to paycheck for the most part.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
-Kujako-
Pharmacists make 150k annually starting out, basically counting pills. #1 job in demand in the U.S so the starting pay will go up, its all about the market, really has nothing to do with the program. I would doubt there is a high demand for robotics, engineering isnt even that high atm.
For starting its normal, u can grow very fast tho