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Originally Posted by valo403
Neither one is an easy task, but the market pays what the market pays. If you want capable people you have to pay them a competitve salary. If you want people who can half ass the job you pay them rates well below market. The fact that you earned that salary doing research has no bearing on the discussion, they are completely different jobs with completely different markets and pay scales. The only common tie is the word cancer.
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This is a side bar, but I believe it is a related issue. Recently there has been a lot of press about sliding innovation and research initiatives in Canada and the USA. A lot of this has to do with people jumping ship on R&D (myself included) due to low salaries and moving into financial/law/investing etc. areas. If people want innovation to improve, they need to be willing to pony up some cash to some grass roots research. I think the market assessment for salary R&D work is way to low at the moment.
I hear people bitching about surviving on only $100k/yr in Calgary all the time. Some people need a reality check, including certain not for profit organizations.