How to you end up making only 30000/year with a PhD in a subject where graduates make 150k? Even post-doc positions tend to pay more than that. Everybody I know that has a STEM PhD and went into industry earns a lot more than I do.
PhD _student_
150K isn't anywhere near the stated "most programmers".
Sorry you're right I was thinking of salary of Stanford undergraduate first job in Bay Area versus stanford PhD student .