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My grad school stipend was ~$500 every two weeks pre-tax. I worked like crazy. The football coach made ~250k. I now make over 5 times that.. after taxes.

When I left grad school I found many of it's problems present in the corporate world; except that now, compensation is commiserate with responsibility.



Commensurate, not commiserate.

You commiserate (sympathize) with the author's plight. And now your compensation is now commensurate (measurably equal) with your responsibility.


During my stint in the corporate world, my compensation was also commiserate with my responsibility. How could you tell GP wasn't being both ironic and Freudian?


Because I didn't think he was adjectiving a verb. :)


Sorry I have to ask; what do you do that nets you 1.25m after taxes?

And does that include shares?


I'm going to guess he meant 5x the $500/2w he was getting as a grad student, rather than 5x the $250k/year the football coach was getting.


How long did it take you to get your degree, and how many papers did you write to do it?




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