Sports Direct are hiring . <| sep |> Well neither asu or USCjr have recovered yet so expect them bad for like 5 years . <| sep |> Isn ' t there already an entire sub dedicates to this ? <| sep |> Read edit the second , bruh . No cctv in the building <| sep |> This is exactly the attitude in academics that the public loathes . You ' re not entitled to anything . The salary for postdocs was not a mystery to you before you started grad school . If you ' re unhappy about your salary postgrad school , I don ' t know what to tell you . And my comment vis a vis 5 th year graduate students is not nonsense . It just hurts fragile egos . One my last day of my 4 th and final year of graduate school , I was making ~ 32 k . Two days later I started a postdoc making ~ 50 k . In the intervening two days I learned nothing and gained no experience . The only thing new was a silly piece of paper from a graduation ceremony I didn ' t even attend because I had left to start the new job . The market should set the rates for postdoc salaries just as it should set the rates for other salaries . There ' s nothing special about academia . If an incoming postdoc can add something truly unique , they will have labs competing for their services , and they will earn more . If they ' re just a 5 th year graduate student with a piece of paper , they ' ll earn less . I have both types in my lab , and they can even acknowledge the difference . The latter has the sense to realize she ' s not entitled to the salary of the former .