> Even PhD students, who's nominal salary is maybe $3-5k a month
Do they really get paid that much these days?
Do they really get paid that much these days?
You can reliably assume that PhD wages must eventually converge to the rent of a studio apartment nearby + a little bit (which may or may not be enough to cover all other expenses. Going into debt is common.)
But it is true that in Europe, Switzerland PhDs (and professors too) make most. Not just ETH/EPFL as well. UZH (Uni Zurich) has salaries of 50K CHF per year for PhD candidates (with increments every year) -- that's almost 60K USD by your fourth year. This is also true for other universities. And while Zürich is expensive, it is not _that_ expensive.
Computer science is rate 5, so 73kCHF the first year, 78kCHF the second, then 83kCHF onwards.