Talk:The Fortification Implementation/@comment-1298029-20150410120036

Well, I'm not American, but I keep hearing references to how little the guys make (once again this episode). I'm not sure how realistic the show's portrayal is, and I realize academia pays less than business, but there's something seriously wrong if people who work at one of the world's top ten universities make less after 10 years of work than someone who just started as a sales rep with unfinished community college. One would expect that, since these universities can most likely pick the best and brightest from the world over, and every one of the millions of academics in the world would like to work at an institution like that, they'd pay at least a competitive salary. Or do scientists everywhere just have to accept that there just isn't any place where one would make decent money in academia?