Salary for 75% research after fellowship

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If you're seeking a position for at least 75% research time right out of fellowship, for 1-2 years, while gearing up to apply for NIH funding, in general what might the salary be? Would it vary much by specialty? This would only be at a large academic children's hospital. Thanks.

 

[mdphd2b]

If you're seeking a position for at least 75% research time right out of fellowship, for 1-2 years, while gearing up to apply for NIH funding, in general what might the salary be? Would it vary much by specialty? This would only be at a large academic children's hospital. Thanks.

In general the pay will be lower than for new clinical faculty. At my institution, we started at $140K (85% research/10% clinical/5% teaching), while the all-clinical fellows started around $160K. At other very large children's hospitals in south and midwest, I have 75% research friends who started at around $170K-$175K after fellowship. Note that as faculty, your "true" time on research effort might be ~60%, no matter how much your protected time says.

 

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That sounds excellent to me. I was hoping it wouldn't be in the ballpark of ~100k. I'll take 140k!

 

[SurfingDoctor]

Yes, it varies by speciality, hospital and country region. However the difference between clinician-educator faculty and physician-scientist faculty is not that different. Physician-scientist faculty is about 95% base pay of clinician-educator faculty.

Note, that the NIH has salary caps, but K grants require 75% research and the department is suppose to honor that and still protect your salary based on institution and specialty.

 

[thetubes]

To be honest, NIH funding is highly competitive. Some people are willing to forgo attending salaries to do research fellowships for a few years, especially if you don't have a PhD.

 

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Exactly. 140k would be giving up a lot of salary in my specialty (neonatology). But that's fine with me. I just don't want to live on 70k anymore if I don't have to when I have high rent, >1k in loan interest payments per month and my partner makes less than me. If not, I will be 40 years old before I can afford to have kids.

 

[Pedsdoc13]

Hrmmm, sadly at our institution an 80/20 job out of fellowship starts at around $80,000. Must be very speciality dependent!

 

[mdphd2b]

Hrmmm, sadly at our institution an 80/20 job out of fellowship starts at around $80,000. Must be very speciality dependent!

To clarify - my reply posted above was for pedi GI research-track salaries after fellowship.

 

[physicsnerd42]

Hrmmm, sadly at our institution an 80/20 job out of fellowship starts at around $80,000. Must be very speciality dependent!

That’s obscene. I make within a few $k of that as a resident and will be making more than that as a fellow. Why would anyone take that job? Only in pediatrics can you so woefully underpay your faculty. Literally every full time nurse at my institution makes more than that, and in some of the physician specialties the 80% research people make 3-5 times that.


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