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Appendix B: Determination of the Minimum Salary Figure
Pages 93-96

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... However, using the crowdsourcing website GradPay and IPEDS Institutional Characteristics Survey Tuition Data, it was determined that the average total cost for a science, engineering, or health graduate student in 2011 was approximately $51,000, more than half of which is for tuition and fees. 40 Indexing to newly hired assistant professors According to the 2013-2014 Faculty Salary Survey of Institutions Belonging to Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities conducted by Oklahoma State University, the average nine-month salary of a newly hired assistant professor at public research universities in the biological and biomedical sciences is $74,177; in engineering it is $84,012; in computer and information 40 Values rounded to the nearest thousand.
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... . Assuming a reasonable starting salary for a postdoctoral researcher to be approximately two-thirds of this nine-month amount implies a starting salary in the biological and biomedical sciences for postdoctoral researchers of $49,698; in engineering, of $56,288; in computer and information sciences and support services of $63,137.
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... The committee emphasized that this is a benchmark minimum. A number of factors -- including but not limited to discipline, region, and institutional salary scales -- should be taken into account when setting salaries for postdoctoral researchers.
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