How Much Does a Cern Scientist Earn Annually?

[mfeneley]

Roughly how much does a Cern physicist or other scientist make each year?

 

[Choppy]

It's not about the money. It's about the private jets at your disposal.

 

[mfeneley]

They have a private jet?

 

[Choppy]

Sorry. It's a reference to one of Dan Brown's books - Angels & Demons where the director of CERN had a private jet at his disposal. To the best of my knowledge this is not the case.

To be honest, I don't know too much about CERN itself. Scientists in large collaborative experiments have a range of salaries. Most of them will be post-doctoral fellows working contract positions making ballpark $40k US per year. Professors will earn more. Graduate students will earn less.

 

[mfeneley]

Thats it? Does it rise exponentially with experience?

 

[Gear300]

I'll have to say, this thread turned out to be a very funny dialogue.

 

[Riffraff]

Thats it? Does it rise exponentially with experience?

It does not..

 

[TMFKAN64]

There are a lot of people who want to play with the newest and coolest toys. They don't have to offer big money to attract big talent.

 

[mal4mac]

You get to torture research students and take long golf breaks after a few decades experience. No private jet, but lots of free flights to exotic places -- you may have to give a half hour talk though, which interrupts the golf playing. Tortured research students will do the grunt work & even write the paper if you torture them enough... If you are *really* lazy, or the golf is really good, you can take a research student with you to give the talk, but that's wasting a free flight you can take later in the year... Also they get above themselves if you give them any perks...