Is $120k base salary for a mass spec job (PhD entry level) in San Diego reasonable?

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Depends on YOE out of grad school but that’s a fair salary for a scientist.

For context I worked in biotech as an analytical chemist for 4 yrs. Before I became an engineer.

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Then yes that’s a very fair salary for a scientist with no postdoc. Especially in SD. These were the salaries to expect in the SF Bay Area maybe on the tax lower side but still fair!

As for me becoming a SWE… well I never went to grad school and my bachelors is on Human Biology ironically 😂 I didn’t want to pursue any more higher education and the sciences no joke really suck in terms of pay and what not compared to tech.

And remote work is pretty nice 😊

On top of fume hoods not working too well in my lab gave my chest pains from time to time

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Thermal ionization mass spec, gas chromatograph mass spec, or something else? Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometry? I’ve had my hands on all of those but it’s been a few years.

Mine was all nuke, so I have no idea what you’re talking about. And it’s been 30 years. Good luck!

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