Typical Starting Salaries for Physics PhDs

Credit: APS/Source: IPEDS Completion Survey

This graph shows middle 50% (between the 25th and 75th percentiles) the typical starting salaries for PhD graduates between 2007 and 2008.  Government includes Fedearlly Funded Research and Development Centers. Data only include US-trained PhDs who remained in the US after receiving their degrees..

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