From: drt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Robert Toreki)
Newsgroups: sci.research.careers
Subject: Salary and Employment Survey Results (long)
Summary: Salaries, employment etc. in academia & industry (chemistry)
Keywords: salary, PhD, MS, BS, men, women, chemistry, management
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:29:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul21.152910.15234
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.


	Well Chemical and Engineering News has just published its annual
salary survey (ACS members).  There are a lot of neat graphs and stuff here
that I can't reproduce, but I will give you some titles and try to reproduce
the most relevant tables.  If you want to look this up yourself see C&EN, July
13, 1992, pages 38-46.  Even if you're not a chemist, I thnk many will find it
interesting.  Anything I add as commentary I will mark with **, and caveats
can be found at the end: 

Some titles found on some charts:

	NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED CHEMISTS MOVES UP AGAIN
		 -- the graph indicates this is about 1.9%

	PERCENTAGE OR CHEMISTS EMPLOYED FULL-TIME IS AT LOWEST LEVEL
	IN THE DECADE. (excludes those not employed and NOT seeking)
		 Here is an abbreviated chart:

	employment status		1992		1982
     ------------------------------------------------------------
	employed full time		93.4%		94.9%
	employed part time		2.2		1.4
	Postdoc/fellowship		2.4		2.2
	Unemployed			1.9		1.5

	WOMEN, MINORITIES, AND PhD's ARE LEAST LIKEL TO BE EMPLOYED
	FULL-TIME. (INCLUDES those not seeking employment)
		-- some more partial data from this also big chart:

empl status	Total	Men	Women	BS	MS	PhD	Minority
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
full time	91.8%	93.3	86.0	92.7	92.7	91.2	88.2
part time	2.2	1.4	5.4	2.1	2.6	2.2	1.4
Post/fellow	2.4	2.2	3.1	0.2	0.2	3.9	7.6
Unemployed
  seeking:	1.9	1.8	2.4	2.3	2.0	1.7	1.9
  not seeking	1.7	1.4	3.1	2.6	2.5	1.1	0.9

	
	GOV'T OFFERS MOST STABLE EMPLOYMENT FOR CHEMISTS
	
	employer	Full time	Part time	postdoc	   seeking
       -------------------------------------------------------------------
	Industry	96.6%		0.9%		0.3%	    2.1%
	Academia	88.0		3.1		7.6	    1.3
	Gov't		94.1		2.0		3.1	    0.9
	Oth nonacadem	81.0		12.9		2.4	    3.7


	CHEMISTS BETTER PAID BY INDUSTRY AT ALL DEGREE LEVELS
			(median salary in thousands)
		All Chemists   $54.6
		Industry	57.0
		Gov't		53.0
		Academia	48.0
		B.S.		42.0	** these #'s are not just for
		M.S.		50.0	** industry, but overall
		Ph.D.		60.0
		Male		57.0
		Female		42.3
		
	area	BS	MS	PhD
     ----------------------------------
	Ind.	42.3	52.0	65.0
	Gov.	40.0	49.0	60.0
	Acdmia	31.4	38.0	49.0

	
	TOP 10% OF PHD INDUS. CHEMISTS EARN OVER $100,000 AFTER 20 YRS.
		** because they go into management, that's why **

		Median Salary	5-9 yrs since BS	20-24 yrs since BS
		$ thousands					
	 PhD --------------------------------------------------------------
		90%		58.0			95.6
		75%		55.0			81.4
		50%		52.0			70.0
		25%		48.1			60.3
		10%		44.0			53.0


	some other big charts, but I won't reproduce them here...

	SALARIES OF WOMEN CHEMISTS IN INDUSTRY SEEM TO PLATEAU AFTER
	ABOUT 15 YEARS ON THE JOB

	SALARY GAP BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN CHEMISTS IS GENERALLY SMALLER
	IN GOVERNMENT

	CONSTANT DOLLAR SALARIES FOR BS CHEMISTS HAVE STAGNATED FOR
	THE PAST 10 YEARS  (but PhD & MS up very slightly)

 **  this is an interesting one for many, chemist or not:

	BIGGEST SALARY GAINS FOR CHEMISTS COME IN FIRST 20 YEARS OF CAREER

		-- it shows overall median salaries at various career
		 points for all areas and by degree.

**  Here is another that is no surprise...

	IN INDUSTRY, MANAGERS HAVE LARGE SALARY EDGE (PhD)

			R&D management		$80.9
			Gen maanagement		83.5
			Marketing		66.3
			App Research		60.0
			Production		57.6
			Basic research		61.1

	BIGGER INDUSTRIAL FIRMS TEND TO PAY CHEMISTS MORE
		-- again, I'm just listing PhD salaries here

			# employees	PhD
			< 500		$60.0
			500-2499	62.5
			2500-9999	66.0
			10000-25000	65.0
			> 25,000	69.9

	FULL PROFESSORS AT TOP SCHOOLS DO WELL
			   9 to 10 Mo contracts		11 to 12 Mo contracts		
	Median Salary	  Non-PhD school   PhD school	Non-PhD	  PhD school
	--------------------------------------------------------------------
	Full Professor	  	49.5	     61.0	 67.3	    85.0
	Associate Prof		38.2	     43.3	 56.9	    54.6
	Asst Prof		32.0	     37.2	 40.9	    45.0

========================================================================

Obvious cabeat here.  Respondents are members of the American Chemical
Society, which has somewhere around 110,000 members.  I don't know the survey
method used, but the sample population is obvious self-selecting.  So proceed
with whatever caution you wish.
	I WILL NOT subscribe to theories that the ACS has a vested interest in
deluding members or nonmembers.  In fact, the ACS has a strict code that it
would like to see implemented by all employers regarding ethical conduct in
hiring/firing practices and publishes a report card in C&E News showing which
firms are being unscupulous.
	So there you are.  These numbers are reproduced here without
permission, but in good intent on a nonprofit basis.  The article contains
good analysis of the numbers, look it up if the trends interest you.  I found
the disparity between men and women's slaries most distressing, but I assume
this if from women not being promoted 10, 20, 30 years ago.  Comments welcome.


						Rob

  
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