Yale is now paying its PhD students a whopping sum of $30,000 – $35,000 per year. Plus the ever-growing benefits, of course.
Wow, fellow Yalies, is this shocking or what? We only got- what was it? – $19,000 – $20,000? We were so short-changed. Let’s go back to grad school and get paid to have drinks at Sullivan’s. Good times.
I thought they were on hiatus because of the RGE scandal. Maybe this is what it takes to get people to go there now. Our instructors should sign up — this is what they make for teaching 4-5 classes.
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Hey, inflation and all that. In the 1950’s, medical interns who were M.D.s got no salary at all except room, board, and clothing — which was all they needed, since they worked all night every other night and had no time for any social life, except for the occasionally sympathetic, equally overworked nurse.
By the time I was an intern in 1970, the yearly pay was about $10,000 (actually, not bad pay for the decade), the call schedule was every third night, and the nurses were still eager to do their part.
Today, most first-year medical residents (as they’re now called) make almost $50,000 a year, and most hospitals have a night-shift rotation without a forced 36-hour work period (at most, every fourth night). Most of today’s interns are married, so they need the money more than the informal support from a professional staff that’s no longer divided along gender lines.
The world keeps turning every day, year after year — so take the cash, and let yesterday’s credit go.
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I only graduated 8 years ago, actually.
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Princeton pays engineering grad students $40k.
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Engineering, I’m not surprised.
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