<p>If any of you guys have/are doing undergrad research, were/are you paid?</p>
<p>Doing it now… get paid (not much, I think just above minimum wage).</p>
<p>Yes. Most places have to for liability reasons or something like that.</p>
<p>Some profs I know give kids course credit for the research work they do during the semester instead of pay. However, when summer comes around, they generally pay the undergrads.</p>
<p>I know some of the labs at my school pays, but some other professors accept volunteers and can’t pay.
What does that typically imply? </p>
<p>Another lab, the prof said he doesn’t accept volunteers because the lab might be dangerous. He also said that he can’t tell volunteers what to do and need paid employees so he can yell at them.</p>
<p>My son does research as part of a class, so he is not paid. He did, however, put this under work experience on his resume when applying for jobs this summer. He’s been there two years, does lots of valuable work with skills that are noteworthy on a resume, and just because he doesn’t get paid for it I don’t think should preclude him from counting that as job experience.</p>
<p>I got paid when I was in undergrad research. I got around $1500 a month with also being one of the author of a published research thesis.</p>
<p>The benefit is as long as u get things done, you dont need to be in the lab much, u can just attend lectures and work as well</p>
<p>So, you got paid $1500 a month for doing undergrad research. Why do I find that hard to believe?</p>
<p>Maybe for a full-time summer-time job ($375/wk – $9/hr) During the academic year I also find it hard to believe</p>
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<p>$20/hr*75hrs/month = $1500. Quite a bit of money and a lot of hours, but not unthinkable.</p>
<p>Do they pay more in CALI for these undergrad students?</p>
<p>20 is way too much. Maybe as an internship at an external company, but in a lab in the university, that’s hard to believe. Adding on to that, the poster’s “The benefit is as long as u get things done, you dont need to be in the lab much, u can just attend lectures and work as well” didn’t make much sense to me.</p>
<p>1500 a month is barely less than the base rate for grad students here. That’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>At my university, labor laws require you to be paid for any work you do. The pay rate is dependent on the research grant (funding) your professor is awarded.</p>
<p>I was paid $13 @ 10 hours per week for Transportation Engineering research.</p>
<p>Currently, I’m making $12 (just got a raise from $10) @ 20 hours per week for National Defense research (DOE).</p>
<p>You are required by law here to work no more than 20 hours per week during the semester, but full time if you want during the off seasons.</p>
<p>The Engineering Chairman at my school salaries graduate students and puts a cap on how much they can make.</p>
<p>Masters students are salaried (stipend) at no more than $10,000 a year.
PhD students are salaried (stipend) no more than $12,000.</p>