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Do physicists make enough to be middle class?

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Start date Mar 19, 2016
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potato123

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Mar 19, 2016

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I don't really care about money that much but i would still like to live comfortably and afford a house

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Drakkith

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Mar 20, 2016

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 2014 median income of a physicist was $109,290.
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/physicists-and-astronomers.htm

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Mar 20, 2016

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https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...l-and-experimental-physicist-get-paid.834157/

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jtbell said:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...l-and-experimental-physicist-get-paid.834157/

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