论文标题
美国博士后薪水并不能说明生活成本的差异
American postdoctoral salaries do not account for growing disparities in cost of living
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论文摘要
美国国家卫生研究院（NIH）设定了博士后（博士后）培训人员的津贴水平，许多美国机构和调查人员将其用作博士后工资的基础。尽管薪资标准在整个大学中一直保持不变，但这些大学城市和城镇的生活成本差异很大。在非PostDoc的工作中，更昂贵的城市向工人支付更高的工资，以增加生活成本。这项工作调查了博士后工资在多大程度上解释了生活成本差异。在所有美国大学中，分析了27,000多个在美国大学的薪水，并通过区域生活成本差异的措施进行了分析。我们发现，与同一城市和城镇的更广泛的劳动力市场相反，多核后工资没有考虑到生活成本的差异。尽管高居住区的收入量适中增加，但最低和最昂贵的地区之间的实际（调整后）工资薪水（调整后的）工资薪水却差异29％（2021美元）。相对于波士顿，纽约和旧金山等学生，产生更多终身教师的城市是这种薪水差异最大的城市。博士后薪酬差距正在增长，并且有充分的位置，以增加经济弱势群体的更大财务负担，并为妇女和种族少数群体的差异做出贡献。
The National Institute of Health (NIH) sets postdoctoral (postdoc) trainee stipend levels that many American institutions and investigators use as a basis for postdoc salaries. Although salary standards are held constant across universities, the cost of living in those universities' cities and towns vary widely. Across non-postdoc jobs, more expensive cities pay workers higher wages that scale with an increased cost of living. This work investigates the extent to which postdoc wages account for cost-of-living differences. More than 27,000 postdoc salaries across all US universities are analyzed alongside measures of regional differences in cost of living. We find that postdoc salaries do not account for cost-of-living differences, in contrast with the broader labor market in the same cities and towns. Despite a modest increase in income in high cost of living areas, real (cost of living adjusted) postdoc salaries differ by 29% ($15k 2021 USD) between the least and most expensive areas. Cities that produce greater numbers of tenure-track faculty relative to students such as Boston, New York, and San Francisco are among the most impacted by this pay disparity. The postdoc pay gap is growing and is well-positioned to incur a greater financial burden on economically disadvantaged groups and contribute to faculty hiring disparities in women and racial minorities.
