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Worldwide, many scientists, junior or senior, don’t fully understand the landscape of salaries and job satisfaction. They know the career-stage timeline well — graduate school to postdoc to academia or industry — but it is difficult to track contentment with one’s job by region or by job attributes such as health care, the degree of independence or mentoring potential.

This was a major aim of Nature’s first-ever salary and career survey. We looked at overall career satisfaction and the factors that contribute to it by career stage, gender and geographical region. More than 10,500 scientists responded to the survey from dozens of countries worldwide.

Published in Nature 465, 1104-1107 (23 June 2010) |