AAAS 2004 Salary Survey: Despite Long Hours and Low Pay, Life Scientists Love Their Work

Most of the life scientists who participated in the second AAAS salary survey are glad to be working in the fields they have chosen, though they do have some gripes about salaries, workloads and career support.

This relatively sunny picture emerged from an electronic polling of the 42,000 U.S. members of AAAS in the life sciences. AAAS, a nonprofit institution, is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal, Science.

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