> Even newly minted Ph.D.s in machine learning and data science can make more than $300,000.
Wait, really? I'm just starting out as a research scientist and my pay is nowhere that high. Am I missing something?
Wait, really? I'm just starting out as a research scientist and my pay is nowhere that high. Am I missing something?
* PhD in deep learning / ML with papers at NIPS/ICML
* Working for BigCo (FAANG)
* Half of that is stock, annually.
* In the bay area or a big city
If you don't hit all those items then you pay is likely more modest. If you are academic, it is still likely laughable.
Ah ha. I read it as saying people getting 300k in cash. It makes more sense now. For me, I'll have to wait out several years until my RSU gets fully vested. Let's hope I don't get fired in the meantime :)
I think self-driving tech has matured past this phase where a only few key university dept's have most of the intellectual capital, but I still here mid-200k figures for freshly minted PhD's from the right school.