This article comes from the WeChat public account:There is a university (ID: youjian-university), author: small new students, from the title figure: vision China
“Improve the salary of state-owned enterprise R&D personnel and high-skilled personnel, the average level is higher than the average salary of enterprise management personnel…”
In early June, the Shanxi Provincial Government held a press conference to interpret the newly introduced talent attraction policy, which clearly stated the above requirements for adding money to scientific researchers.
The changes look beautiful, as if the long-awaited spring has finally arrived. After all, the barriers to entry are high, and it is difficult to achieve results. However, the general treatment and conditions do not match the difficulty and value of the work. It has always been regarded as the fatal pain point of the scientific research industry.
On the Internet, scientific research has been closely linked with the word “poor”, and various heated discussions about “doing scientific research will be poor” and the shocking aphorisms of “three generations of scientific research is poor, reading a book to ruin a lifetime” complement each other. I can’t think of it because everyone has made an appointment to bluff.
Compared with enterprise scientific research personnel, university scientific research personnel especially bring a sense of poverty-stricken “scientific research workers”.
How poor is the scientific research in universities
Do research firstNot to mention, hard work should be recognized. In the large group of general scientific researchers in universities, (young teachers) such as master students and “green peppers” have their own difficulties.
Generally speaking, the day-to-day basics of most master-students are to attend classes, hold meetings, nibble documents, do experiments, and write articles. “Moving bricks” is boring and hard work. However, in addition to learning, all kinds of tedious chores and efforts are indispensable, and many people may have acquired more invoicing skills than finance.
A good life for a few years depends on whether you have a good mentor. If you are unlucky, you will either be trapped in the 996 working system and endless group meetings and assessments; or you will become a personal assistant to your tutor, and you will occasionally have to help your child to do research projects; or you can only rely on yourself throughout the process. Seen in this light, studying for postgraduates is really like doing hard work.
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For young teachers, life is tightly focused on classes, taking students, sending articles, doing projects and cumbersome administrative affairs. Under the increasingly popular “non-promotion and go” system of domestic universities, they are within the employment period If you fail to meet the assessment requirements, you have to leave. The work pressure is unimaginable.
From the perspective of these two groups, the scientific research in universities is not so easy work. The heavy burden and the pits everywhere are very important to the country. Ordinary people can’t get in.
However, in such a long-term and long-term job, the issue of its treatment has repeatedly caused controversy.
How about the overall treatment of the scientific research industry? According to the “Average Wage of Employed Persons in Urban Units in 2018” released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the average salary of employees in scientific research and technical service industries ranked third in the ranking, reaching 123,343 yuan.
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At first glance, this data shows that the income of researchers is among the best, and the situation seems to be much better than ordinary people think. But something like “average salary” is like the average income of Ma Yun and you, masking the fact of polarization, and the higher end is often not the reality of ordinary researchers.
The Fourth National Survey Report on the Status of Science and Technology Workers issued by the China Association for Science and Technology in 2018 pointed out that compared with the past few years, the income of scientific researchers has increased but income satisfaction has continued to decline. 33.5% of science and technology workers believe that they are under pressure Mainly derived from economic income.
Overtime work has also intensified. Researchers work on average 49.7 hours per week, which is 24.3% more than the legal working hours. The main factors that affect the well-being of science and technology workers are low income, busy work and unable to take care of the family.
To sum up, it is hard work and low wages, which is simply “poor and bald.”
It should be noted that the statistical objects of the above data include various types of scientific research workers. In terms of subdivisions, compared with corporate scientific research that can rely on corporate capital and focus on application and monetization, university scientific research focuses on academic research, and there is no corporate capital advantage, so the treatment situation is generally less advantageous.
Lingyan.com collected the real income of 38 scientific researchers in 2018. Overall, the treatment of scientific researchers in colleges and universities varies according to their status, major, school, region, etc.
In these examples, the income of doctoral students is between 1,000 and 5,000 yuan, and the welfare bonus is not available in all schools; the subsidies for master students are in the range of several hundred to more than one thousand, which is a lot compared to the tuition fee.
The basic salary of young teachers is generally not high, and the salary is between 3000-7000 yuan. Other performance and welfare income vary from school to school. In contrast, the treatment of overseas postgraduates and teachers of Chinese-foreign jointly-run universities is significantly higher than that of ordinary universities in China.
Many of these university researchers say that their income does not meet the cost of living, the tuition burden is heavy, the mortgage payment is difficult, and the work pressure is very heavy.
Xiaoxin students learned from an engineering master student that their monthly income is about 1,000 yuan, which is a higher level than other students who earn two or three hundred yuan. Another master’s degree student in linguistics said that he could get a subsidy of 500 yuan per month.
This is not difficult to understand. After all, master students have just stepped into the field of scientific research, and they are still mainly students. But the low level of treatment that extends the entire academic career also means that for a long time, they will be difficult to break away from family assistance and achieve economic independence, which may be the case at the doctoral level.
If you choose this path, you must prepare for low income. /unsplash
Even if you become a young teacher, the low salary level may make it difficult for students who have ordinary family conditions.
Under the question of whether “University professors and researchers can afford nanny”, the highest answer came from a user who graduated from 211 and worked as a lecturer at a university in Shuangfei. The salary is less than 6,000 yuan, and I haven’t earned as much as my wife. And the central idea of other answers is nothing more than, “The overwhelming majority cannot afford it.”
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The above data and examples are all from the personal experience of scientific researchers, and personal circumstances are very different and cannot represent the situation of the entire university scientific research industry. But people can indeed glimpse the real situation of the vast number of “scientific research workers” without resources, contacts and titles.
If you compare them with the employees of other popular high-paying industries, such as the current code farmers and financial migrant workers, the comparison of treatment may be quite cruel.
People of the same professional level and classmate level will continue to do research one after another. The income level may be very different from the beginning, and then the gap will widen. In this way, the opportunity cost of doing scientific research is quite high.
This is why the statement in the initial policy that “the average salary of scientific and technological R&D personnel is higher than the average salary of enterprise management personnel” is slightly questionable.
But in any case, it has nothing to do with the scientific research community in universities.
Science and research in colleges and universities is not impossible to make money
Just as there are exceptions to all things, of course college researchers are not all poor. There is always a small number of big brothers who have personally proved that doing research can also make you rich.
Obviously, compared with the majority of “scientific research workers”, those academic masters who have glittering senior titles and teaching posts and numerous award-winning core circles are naturally the few people standing at the top of the income pyramid. .
Initiating a top journal, obtaining funds, and building a laboratory, when the qualifications and level reach a certain level, treatment and resources are no longer matters that these scientific research practitioners need to worry about.
Just like the entire society, there is widespread income and resource differentiation in the scientific research community, and this gap will only widen. However, it is not advisable to reduce the problem to the difference in personal abilities, and various factors are playing a role in the overall environment.
Different school backgrounds and geographical conditions have laid the foundation for the treatment gap from the beginning. Subsidiary colleges and 985/211 colleges with sufficient funds are naturally more generous than local colleges and Shuangfei colleges, and invest more in scientific research. Health treatment is usually more advantageous.
The gap has been widened between universities. /unsplash
While the gap between disciplines and majors may be a more insurmountable gap, their natural nature and development path have determined too much.
If you are from a popular engineering major that is now highly valued, or a place such as a business school with a solid family background, even if you do not conduct industry to do scientific research, the treatment can still have a great advantage.
At this time, the liberal arts teachers and students always quit group chats silently, and the master and junior students from the four major tiankeng majors of “biochemical ring materials” have been trapped in the brick-and-mortar life and the involuntary discipline. Things are probably too lazy to talk about.
Prosperous and prosperous are mostly disciplines that conform to the needs and development trends of the times; and those whose research results lack market value and fall into involution, in the reality of surplus manpower and stagnant development, the future is uncertain. , Also talk about how to improve treatment.
Schools, majors, and directions are well selected, and income and funding are indispensable; following the instructor, welfare, bonuses, and traveling abroad are not dreams.
After entering a well-funded group, the scientific research life is also beautiful. /unsplash
As long as they are willing to work hard, researchers do not always need to be top talents to obtain high income. Having a stable teaching position is also a big advantage.
Just looking at the income and welfare on the side of the school, the general treatment of professors in domestic universities may generally be only at the upper middle level.Not particularly high, but many of them know how to earn gray income through part-time work.
Many professors go to lectures, do consultants, start companies, and take up projects outside of school work, and they have obtained considerable foreign income, effectively turning knowledge into wealth.
This gray area of deputy jobs is difficult to judge easily, but the basic principle should not affect the job.
Once encountering professors who are busy with sideline business in the legend and not paying enough water for a bunch of papers in class, many people dare to speak out.
This is not the most powerful. Many fearless scholars directly adopt the “law of making money” in one step, and engage in academic misconduct, colluding with various academics, cheating large sums of research funds, and then digging into their pockets. , Incidentally coaxing his worth.
For example, in 2003, Professor Chen Jin of Shanghai Jiaotong University defrauded hundreds of millions of national scientific research funds and a large number of academic titles through his leading “Hanxin No. 1” chip fraud incident, creating a very typical and significant major in the history of national scientific research. Fraud event.
These researchers have made great fortunes and gained fame in social news. Under the temptation of wealth codes, there is no inevitable connection between knowledge and morality.
Speaking of which, to get rich through scientific research is to fight for conditions, qualifications, and various tricks. In fact, it will always be just an arena for a few people.
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