Physicist Phd Salary
Updated on: Dec 14, 2023
How much does a Physicist Phd make?
The average Physicist Phd in the US makes $22,683. The average bonus for a Physicist Phd is $228 which represents 1.02% of their salary, with 5% of people reporting that they receive a bonus each year. Physicist Phds make the most in San Jose, CA at $44,785 averaging total compensation 97% greater than US average.
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$154,182 (USD)
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The average pay for a Physicist PhD is $154,182 a year and $74 an hour in the United States. The average salary range for a Physicist PhD is between $104,998 and $188,718 . On average, a Doctorate Degree is the highest level of education for a Physicist PhD. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in the the United States.
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- Researches, evaluates, and identifies principles governing the structure and behavior of matter, the transfer of energy, and the interaction of matter and energy.
- Plans and conducts research into phases of physical phenomena, develops theories and laws on basis of observation and experiments, and devises methods to apply laws and theories of physics to industry, medicine, and other fields.
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Job family: Physicists
Job family population: 18,840
Estimated population of Physicist PhD jobs: 2,736
Rate of error: 2.7%
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Physicist PhD
$153,856 (usd)/yr, $73.97 (usd) /hr, $6,077 (usd) /yr.
The average physicist phd gross salary in United States is $153,856 or an equivalent hourly rate of $74. In addition, they earn an average bonus of $6,077. Salary estimates based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in United States. An entry level physicist phd (1-3 years of experience) earns an average salary of $106,590. On the other end, a senior level physicist phd (8+ years of experience) earns an average salary of $191,581.
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$172,820 (USD)
Based on our compensation data, the estimated salary potential for Physicist PhD will increase 12 % over 5 years.
This chart displays the highest level of education for: Physicist PhD , the majority at 100% with doctorates.
Typical Field of Study: Physics
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PhysStipendRankings: PhD Stipend Rankings
PhysStipendRankings is a stipend-based ranking of top-paying Physics departments in US. We may implement support for other countries and you are welcomed to contribute! For a real academic ranking, please refer to U.S.News , etc.
- Stipend is the annual, 12-month, pre-tax allowance graciously granted by the institution. Note that some departments do not have guaranteed summer funding , and we are currently working to collect such data. Departments with summer funding guarentee are tagged with a summer label. For now, the list is not complete.
- Fees are annual non-reimbursible tariffs (including health insurance) reclaimed by said institution.
- Living cost is calculated based on the MIT Living Wage Calculator for the institution's city.
We have received a lot of comments that the living cost calculated by the MIT Living Cost Calculator does not really reflect the real living cost in multiple areas. We are considering alternative metrics and data sources. If you are aware of something we can use, please feel free to submit issues or pull requests on GitHub.
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This ranking is part informational and part satire, designed to democratize information on how PhD students in physics and related areas are paid for their labor – inadequately , in most cases.
Most of the frontend code of this website is from CSRankings , and we intentionally used the same template. The code of this website can be found at https://github.com/PhysStipendRankings/PhysStipendRankings , and the data presented can be found as a CSV file here .
Contributing: Everyone is welcomed to submit patches or report the stipend via pull requests . Another option to submit valuable datapoints is through this Google Form . Also, feel free to submit issues on GitHub .
- Gathering data for summer funding guarantees. We plan to incorporate a feature that allows users to exclude non-guaranteed funds when calculating the stipends.
- Highlighting universities that offer 100% appointments during the summer, e.g. UW, instead of the typical 50% appointments.
- Adding a verification system for stipends, where we can confirm the details of the stipend with an offer letter or paystub record, and displaying a checkmark in the "Stipend" column to indicate that the stipend is verified.
- Add alternative sources of living cost. In the future, users should have the ability to choose between different sources of living cost while ranking.
- Data is often unavailable for the precise district in which the university is located. In such cases, we use data for the county or wider metro area. This often skews the estimate lower. For instance, UC San Diego is located in La Jolla, one of the most expensive districts in the US, but we resort to using figures for the wider San Diego county. Same goes for Princeton vs. Mercer County, etc.
- The Calculator states that the estimates are what is required "to cover the costs of their family's basic needs where they live". However, how much one needs to sustain onself is subjective, and users have reported that they can live on much less.
PhysStipendRankings is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License . The frontend (i.e., CSS and HTML) of this website is based on CSRankings, a work at https://github.com/emeryberger/CSrankings . The copyright of CSRankings is owned by Emery Berger . The copyright of the non-CSRankings part of PhysStipendRankings is owned by its contributors .
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