There is very little information available on how much postdocs are actually paid in the U.S., beyond data on institutional salary policies gathered by the National Postdoctoral Association. Following on from recent discussions about postdoc salaries changing as a result of proposed updates to U.S. Federal labor law, we have gathered data from a selection of institutions through Freedom of Information Requests, asking only for titles and salaries of postdocs, to see if we can identify actual postdoctoral salaries. The aggregate data, and more information, can be found at out “Investigating Postdoc Salaries” Resource. Every day, we will be releasing a discussion of each individual institution or system from which we received data. Today: University of Virginia.

 

Cost for FOIA Request: $0

Additional notes: Names also supplied.

 

The University of Virginia first refused our Freedom of Information Request as it was out-of-state. A volunteer in Virginia kindly submitted the request for us, which was then accepted.

 

178 postdocs were on $47,500 (set as a result of the new salary policy), out of 264 salaries used for analysis (one salary was below $23,660), meaning 67% of salaries were at this exact number.