[vostok]

> People don't work in university research for the pay, it's garbage, I assure you.

It's pretty good in the US. I just looked up a randomly chosen assistant professor at a public university and they make $200k. I only looked up one person's salary so this isn't cherry picked.

I'm not saying that they're in it for the money. I'm only disagreeing with the part where you said that the pay is garbage.

It's not an infinite amount of money and it's less than industry, but it seems not garbage considering job prestige, job benefits, etc.

[kiwih]

I'm sorry at what university was this assistant professor getting 200k? I clearly need to find better universities :)

[dguest]

You can look up all the UC positions here:

https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/

A lot of professors are making over 200k, but most that I knew were around 150k.

(You can also find all the 5M positions, usually head coach)

[vostok]

This was a professor at UCLA.

[kristopolous]

That's legit. Nobody in my CS lab made money like that. Maybe they stopped paying terrible because when I left that lab I made double the salary at half the effort