Originally Posted By: Hankster

You can bet your sweet ass that the next person like those you mentioned will be working for someone that makes $2,000 a minute.

He's making that because he had the smarts to hire one of those people you mentioned.

And he has a modern day laboratory for R&D.





Fortunately you are wrong again. Much of the cutting edge research done today is done by not for profit research institutes. There are hundreds of these organizations all working on various problems. The researchers are typically paid in the 100-200 K range and the Executive Director roughly the same. So much of the current research is NOT done by pharmaceutical companies. Also consider the research done at veteran’s hospitals and universities.

These dedicated researchers are paid a good income but could, in most cases, make considerably more by going over to a pharmaceutical company. But feel they are doing more important work where they are. However the disparity in private vs. not for profit and university salaries is often so large many good university professors are lost to them every year.

But to understand the dedication of these scientists know that most leave not for more salary, but for more modern facilitates and equipment.

No, most cutting edge research done today is not done by people reporting to people who make $2,000 per hour.
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