<p>Haha, I'm using how much time I actually work! :)</p>
<p>At 40 hours a week with two weeks of vacation, I'd be making $14.75 per hour before taxes. Research technicians in my lab have approximately these hours and make about as much or a little more than grad students annually.</p>
<p>okay now it sounds a bit better..haha yea if you actually divide it by total # hours it would suck</p>
<p>good thing is that i will be getting paid for all my hours spent</p>
<p>so according to you, what should i ask for?</p>
<p>I got 8 bucks an hour for a job that I had to commute to, and 8.50 an hour for my summer internship. I also go to school in the mid east, so the cost of living might be a little cheaper.</p>
<p>Are you guys serious? 9-12 dollars/hr for an undergrad? 20/hour?</p>
<p>PhD students get a salary of about 25-30 per year so an hourly wage of a little more than 12/hour assuming a 40 hr week (laughable). As an undergrad a mere four years ago, I was making 7.50 an hour and that was the norm in Madison, WI. As a professional scientist in industry, I was making somewhere around 15.50/hour, also fairly average in Madison.</p>
<p>OK, and are you serious belevit, when you compare wages from Madison, Wisconsin to wages in the rest of the country? We have a standard university wage of $9.75 an hour, and many labs pay $12/hr.</p>
<p>i seriously got 20 dollars / hour for 20 hours a week in the lab. i didn't think too much of it and the phd students in the lab make way more than me. a 25 mil grant might have something to do with it, but still...</p>
<p>okay thanks guys...
one more thing now, what is the method that is best to get paid in (i.e. stipend?)
i want to avoid being taxed (if there is a way)</p>
<p>please help ASAP, i am exchanging mails with my PI</p>
<p>thanksss</p>
<p>You can't avoid being taxed, unless you make less than the minimum amount (I forget what it is -- $8000?) and are not required to file taxes. Stipends are taxed.</p>