[imworkingrn]

Do researchers make any real money? I feel like all around I hear about it being stale there as far as funding goes.

[austin-cheney]

Researchers are in a unique position to get paid to discover things. Its a lottery in that what they publish could potentially be worth tremendous money in industry, but its a safe gamble because if everything else goes wrong they are still employable with a higher than average salary doing work that is less boring than average.