<p>"Ummm… newly graduated post graduate science degrees are getting more than 80K/year here in Chicagoland. "
-Chicago is very very expansive place to live. 80K in Chicago would be probably the same as about $60K in my city. The scintist with huge amount of experience is getting about $80k+ here. But how many people wea re talking? -Very few. I am talking about much more “crpwded” proffesions in general business, engineering, IT. Nope, non-experienced person here would not get $80k here…well maybe in daddy’s business, but I do not know anything about how coneections influence the compensation. People here in general are happy to be working, who cares how much, there is no choice. One big reason for us to be paying our D’s Medical school - we do not want her to deal with loans that we never had.</p>