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CAREER INFORMATION FROM THE DOCTORAL EXIT SURVEY June 2017 Survey Results

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Plans after Graduation

How Graduates Found Jobs

Top Industries for PhDs

Top Employers for PhDs

Information about Location after Graduation

Questions about Additional Experiences (Internship, Leadership

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Postgraduate Plans by Department 10

Employers by Department 11-12

Employers of All PhD Graduates 13-15

Employers of International PhD Graduates 15-16

Average Salary and Bonus 16-17

Average Salary of Postdocs Positions by Department 18

Average Salary by Department of PhDs Going into Other Positions 19

Average Salary by Industry 20-22

Doctoral Exit Survey Career Information Report

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Welcome to the CAREER INFORMATION FROM THE 2017 DOCTORAL EXIT SURVEY

We have taken career related information from the Doctoral Exit Survey and published this in a brief report for the MIT community and partners. In 2009, we began using the Doctoral Exit Survey to collect destination information for all PhDs. Employer and salary information about PhDs, prior to 2009, can be found in the Graduating Student Survey, http://gecd.mit.edu/resources/data. A special thanks to Sue Acton, who worked on this report. Any questions about the survey and results can be directed to Deborah Liverman, liverman@mit.edu .

ABOUT THE DOCTORAL EXOT SURVEY

The Doctoral Exit Survey is administered by Institutional Research, Office of the Provost at MIT. All information about the Doctoral Exit, including purpose, method, format, and past reports can be found on the Institutional Research Doctoral Exit Survey Information web page, http://web.mit.edu/ir/surveys/docexit.html.

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2017 MIT POST GRADUATION STATISTICS* *Based upon 473 out of 582 (81%) response rate to the 2017 Doctoral Exit Survey

WHAT IS THE STATUS OF YOUR POSTGRADUTE PLANS?*

POSTGRADUATE PLANS %

Work 74.1%

Graduate/Professional School 1.8%

Negotiating with one or more specific organizations 7.1%

Still Searching for Employment 9.5%

Other 3.0%

Returning to or continuing in predoctoral employment 3.8%

Do not plan to work or study 0.7%

*Other includes taking time off, traveling, and etc.

74%

9%

7%

3%4%

2% 1%

2017 Postgraduate Plans of PhDs

Work

Still Searching forEmployment

Negotiating with One ofMore Organizations

Other

Returning to or Cotinuing inPredoctoral Empolyment

Graduate/ProfessionalSchool

Do Not Plan to Study orWork

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WHAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR POSTGRADUATE PLANS?

PLANS %

Postdoc or further training 42.0%

Employment 58.0%

HOW 2017 PHDS FOUND THEIR JOBS?*

How PhDs Found Job %

Directly applied to employer 45.5%

Networking 37.8%

Through Department (faculty, academic administrator) 19.0%

External advertised job listing (on-line, print) 12.4%

On-campus recruiting (CareerBridge) 9.8%

Career Fair 8.4%

Internship led to job offer 7.2%

Professional Conference 5.5%

Contacts acquired through MIT Career Services 2.3%

MIT Sponsored Job Listings, Employer Database, INET 0.9%

Other 7.5%

*Respondents can select more than one answer and so the total will add up to more than 100%

42%

58%

2017 Postgraduate Plans for those Working

Postdoc or further training

Employment

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2017 INDUSTRIES FOR PHDS

Industry %

Education 28.1%

Engineering 15.1%

Computer Software 10.7%

Health/Medicine 8.6%

Pharmaceutics (Biotech, Medical Device) 5.6%

Consulting 5.0%

Chemicals and Materials 4.4%

Aerospace and Defense 4.1%

Government 3.8%

Computer Hardware/ Electrical Engineering 2.7%

Energy and Utilities 2.1%

Automotive and Transportation 1.5%

Investment Banking 1.2%

Financial Services 1.2%

Architecture and Urban Planning 0.9%

Industrial and Consumer Manufacturing 0.9%

Non-Profit Agency or NGO 0.9%

Law 0.9%

Military 0.6%

Communications, Arts, Entertainment 0.3%

Other Industries Not Listed Above 1.2%

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WHICH EMPLOYERS HIRED THE MOST MIT PHD GRADUATES?

PhD Level Employers # Hires

MIT 26

Harvard University 15

Google 9

University of California Berkeley 7

Stanford University 5

McKinsey & Company 5

Princeton University 5

Apple 5

University of Washington 4

Microsoft 4

University of Chicago 4

Columbia University 4

Draper Laboratories 4

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories 4

28.1%

15.1%

10.7%

8.6%

5.6% 5.0% 4.4% 4.1%

0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

30.0%

2017 Top Industries for PhDs

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Boston Consulting Group 3

Massachusetts General Hospital 3

Northwestern University 3

University of Pennsylvania 3

Facebook 3

Lam Research 2

Analog Devices, Inc. 2

Broad Institute 2

California Institute of Technology 2

Intel 2

ASAPP 2

Biogen 2

ETH Zurich 2

Goldman Sachs 2

Amazon 2

FOR THOSE WHO INTEND TO LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, IN WHAT STATE DO YOU INTEND TO LIVE AFTER GRADUATION? (N=187)

State %

Massachusetts 37.6%

California 23.7%

New York 7.7%

Washington 4.4%

Illinois 4.0%

District of Columbia 3.3%

New Jersey 2.6%

Pennsylvania 2.6%

Colorado 2.2%

Texas 1.8%

Oregon 1.8%

Michigan 1.5%

New Hampshire 1.5%

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FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT PLAN TO LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES, IN WHAT

COUNTRY DO YOU INTEND TO LIVE AFTER GRADUATION? (N=51)

Country %

Canada 15.7%

Germany 9.8%

France 7.8%

Singapore 7.8%

South Korea 7.8%

India 5.9%

Switzerland 5.9%

United Kingdom 5.9%

Denmark 3.9%

Greece 3.9%

Japan 3.9%

PERCENTAGE OF PHD GRADUATES THAT COMPLETED AN INTERNSHIP WHILE IN THEIR CURRENT PROGRAM (N=455)

YES NO

34.3% 65.7%

PERCENTAGE OF PHD GRADUATES THAT HAD A LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE DURING THEIR TIME AT MIT (N=453)

YES NO DON’T KNOW

54.1% 40.8% 5.1%

PERCENTAGE OF PHD GRADUATES WITH SERVICE EXPERIENCE DURING THEIR TIME AT MIT (N=454)

YES NO DON’T KNOW

37.0% 55.5% 7.5%

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WHAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR POSTGRADUATE PLANS? Numbers of respondents are in the column titled “total”

Department (Course Number) Postdoc or Further Training

Employment

Total

Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) 0 2 2

Mechanical Engineering (2) 17 22 39

Materials Science and Engineering (3) 9 11 20

Architecture (4) 2 3 5

Chemistry (5) 9 9 18

EECS- (6) 19 51 70

Biology (7) 12 5 17

Physics (8) 9 5 14

Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) 5 4 9

Chemical Engineering (10) 4 14 18

Urban Studies and Planning (11) 1 2 3

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (12) 16 4 20

Economics (14) 5 10 15

Sloan School of Management (15) 1 4 5

Aeronautics and Astronautics (16) 2 14 16

Political Science (17) 1 6 7

Mathematics (18) 12 4 16

Biological Engineering (20) 3 8 11

Nuclear Science and Engineering (22) 3 6 9

Linguistics and Philosophy (24) 1 2 3

Computational and Systems Biology [CSB] 0 0 0

Health, Science, and Technology [HST] 3 2 5

IDSS (formerly ESD) 3 3 6

Media Arts and Sciences [MAS] 5 4 9

Microbiology 0 0 0

Operations Research (OR) 2 7 9

Science Technology and Society (STS) 3 1 4

WHOI 0 0 0

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2017 PhD EMPLOYERS BY DEPARTMENT * Results are based on reported data and not representative of all employers who hire MIT students by department.

Department (Course Number) Employers

Civil & Environmental Engineering (1) Boston Consulting Group

Mechanical Engineering (2)

Apple, Biogen, Boston Consulting Group, California State University Los Angeles, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, Creare, Goldman Sachs, Green Hills Software, Harvard University, Harvey Mudd College, Lam Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Manus Robotics, MathWorks, McKinsey & Company, MIT, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Northwestern University, Shell, Stanford, Tesla motors, Teza, The Boeing Company, University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), US Naval Academy, Vicarious Surgical, Woobo Inc.

Materials Science and Engineering (3)

Analog Devices, Applied Materials, Atantares, ATI, CNRS, Dongjin semichem, Eastman Chemical Company, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Intel Corporation, John Rogers, Lam Research, LEK, Massachusetts General Hospital, Naval Research Laboratory, Nucleus Scientific, Oak Ridge National Lab, Princeton University, Saint Gobain

Architecture (4) Architecture firm, Arup, EPFL, Istanbul Bilgi University, Rice University

Chemistry (5)

3M, Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, Chulabhorn Research Institute, Harvard University, Motus Integrated Technologies, Northwestern University, Princeton University, PULSE Institute, SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford University, Relay Therapeutics, Rigetti Computing, The Dow Chemical Company, The Rockefeller University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Tokyo, XTuit Pharmaceuticals

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (6)

Amazon, Analog Devices, Analog Photonics, Apple, ASAPP, Cavium, Inc., Columbia University, Databricks Inc., ETH Zurich, Facebook Oculus Research, General Motors, Google, Harvard Medical School / MGH, HRL Laboratories, LLC, IBM, IMC Financial Markets, Intel, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Research, MIT, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Oculus Research, Oracle Labs, PathAI, Philips Healthcare, Sandia National Labs, Sea-Bird Scientific, Secunetics, Stanford University, Thinknear, Twitter, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, University of Toronto, University of Washington, Vatic Labs, Verily (Formerly Google Life Sciences), Waymo, Zoox

Biology (7)

Aquatic Brewing Company, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centre for Trophoblast Research - University of Cambridge, European Commission, First Light Biosciences, Foundation Medicine, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, HHMI / UC Berkeley, McKinsey, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NIH Oliver Jonas/Brigham and Women's Hospital UT Southwestern Medical Center

Physics (8)

Center for Theory of Quantum Matter, University of Colorado Boulder, CNA, Draper Laboratory, Google, Harvard University, Los Alamos National Lab, MIT, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Tessella

Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) Biogen

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Department (Course Number) Employers Broad Institute, Google, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Janelia Research Campus, McKinsey & Company, MIT, RA Capital Management, Seven Bridges Genomics

Chemical Engineering (10)

ClearView Healthcare Partners, Corning, Infor Dynamic Science Labs, Lygos, Merck & Co, MIT, NIST, Tesla, University of California, Berkeley, University of Colorado Boulder/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Verseau Therapeutics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Zydex Industries

Urban Studies and Planning (11) Cornell University, Harvard School Of Public Health, Peking University

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (12)

ACME AtronOmatic, LLC, American Institute of Physics/US Department of State, Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC, ExxonMobil, Harvard University, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, MIT, Oregon State University, Princeton University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UMD, University of British Columbia, University of Washington, University of Washington eScience Institute and School of Oceanography

Economics (14)

Analysis Group, Dartmouth College, Edgeworth Economics, facebook, Harvard business school, Harvard Medical School, Lyft Inc., Microsoft Research, Northwestern University, Princeton University, Tufts University, University of Bologna, University of California Davis, University of Chicago

Management (15)

Boston College Carroll School of Management, ESADE, NBER, Sungkyunkwan University, The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

Aeronautics and Astronautics (16) Apple Inc., Draper Labs, Facebook, Kcg, Military, MIT, MIT Lincoln laboratory Mobi Systems, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planet Labs, Sandia National Laboratories

Political Science (17) Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dartmouth College & University of Toronto, Government Accountability Office, Harvard Kennedy School, OC&C Strategy Consultants, University of Minnesota

Mathematics (18)

Amazon research, Boston University, Brandeis/Harvard/Simons Foundation, Broad Institute, Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, Columbia University, Five Rings Capital, Fondation de Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, UCLA/NSF, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Notre Dame

Biological Engineering (20) Agilent, Decibel Tx, Flagship Pioneering, McKinsey & Co., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, MIT, Simon Kucher, Stanford University, xCella

Nuclear Engineering (22) BCG, Caltech, Exelon, Google, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, St. Ambrose University, UC Berkeley

Linguistics and Philosophy (24) Mie University, New York University, Vassar College

Computational Systems Biology [CSB] NA

Engineering Systems Division [ESD] Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (German Federal Risk Institute), MIT, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, United States Air Force

Health Sciences and Technology [HST]

Neon Therapeutics, Oregon Health and Science University, Third Rock Ventures

Media Arts and Sciences [MAS] CMU, Harvard University, MIT, Princeton University, University of Colorado Boulder

Science, Technology, & Society [STS] Harvard Kennedy School, SUTD, University of California, Berkeley

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Department (Course Number) Employers

Operations Research Agency of Science, Technology And Research, Goldman Sachs, Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute for Technology Assessment, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of Chile, US Army, Zillow

2017 MIT EMPLOYERS OF PHD GRADUATES *Some companies made more than 1 hire but are only represented once on the charts below.

3M Creare ACME AtronOmatic Dartmouth College Agilent Databricks Inc. Amazon Decibel Tx American Institute of Physics/US Department of State Dongjinsemichem Analog Devices Draper Laboratory Analog Photonics Draper Labs Analysis Group Eastman Chemical Company Apple Edgeworth Economics Applied Materials EPFL Aquatic Brewing Company ESADE Arup ETHZurich ASAPP European Commission Atantares Exelon ATI Exxon Mobil Biogen Facebook Boston College Carroll School of Management Facebook Oculus Research Boston Consulting Group First Light Biosciences Boston University Five Rings Capital Brandeis/Harvard/Simons Foundation Flagship Pioneering Brigham and Women's Hospital Fondation de Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Broad Institute Foundation Medicine Bundes institut für Risikobewertung (German Federal Risk Institute) General Motors

California State University Los Angeles Goldman Sachs Caltech Google Carnegie Mellon University Government Accountability Office Cavium Green Hills Software Center for Strategic and International Studies Harvard Business School Center for Theory of Quantum Matter Harvard Kennedy School Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Harvard Medical School Centre for Trophoblast Research-University of Cambridge Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Choate Hall & Stewart LLP Harvard University Chulabhorn Research Institute Harvey Mudd College

Clear View Healthcare Partners Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam-GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

CMU Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Janelia Research Campus

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CNA Howard Hughes Medical Institute/UCBerkeley CNRS IBM Coastal Risk Consulting IMC Financial Markets Columbia University Infor Dynamic Science Labs Cornell University Institute for Technology Assessment Corning Institute of Materials Research and Engineering John Rogers Istanbul Bilgi University Kcg Princeton University Lam Research PULSE Institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory RA Capital Management LEK Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Los Alamos National Lab Relay Therapeutics Lyft Inc. Rice University Lygos Rigetti Computing Manus Robotics Saint Gobain Massachusetts General Hospital Sandia National Laboratories Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scripps Institution of Oceanography MathWorks Sea-Bird Scientific Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Secunetics Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Seven Bridges Genomics McKinsey & Company Shell Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Simon Kucher Merck & Co Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Microsoft Corporation SLAC National Laboratory Microsoft Research St. Ambrose University Mie University Stanford University Military Sungkyunkwan University MIT Lincoln laboratory SUTD MobiSystems Tesla Motus Integrated Technologies Tessella NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Teza National Center for Supercomputing Applications The Boeing Company National Institute of Standards and Technology The Dow Chemical Company National Institutes of Health The Rockefeller University National Renewable Energy Laboratory The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Naval Research Laboratory Thinknear NBER Third Rock Ventures Neon Therapeutics Tufts University New York University Twitter Northwestern University UMD Nucleus Scientific United States Army OakRidge National Lab United States Naval Academy Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington United States Air Force OC & C Strategy Consultants University of California, Los Angeles

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Oracle Labs University of Bologna Oregon Health and Science University University of British Columbia Oregon State University University of California Path AI University of California Peking University University of California, Berkeley Philips Healthcare University of California, Davis Planet Labs University of Cambridge Plasma Science and Fusion Center University of Chicago University of Colorado Boulder University of Chile University of Michigan Vassar College University of Minnesota Vatic Labs University of NotreDame Verily (Formerly Google Life Sciences) University of Pennsylvania Verseau Therapeutics University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Vicarious Surgical

University of Tokyo Waymo University of Toronto Woobo Inc. University of Washington xCella University of Washington eScience Institute and School of Oceanography Xtuit Pharmaceuticals

University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) Zillow UT Southwestern Medical Center Zoox Intel Corporation Zydex Industries

2017 EMPLOYERS OF INTERNATIONAL PHD GRADUATES *Some companies made more than 1 hire but are only represented once on the charts below.

Agency of Science, Technology And Research (A*STAR) CMU Agilent CNRS Amazon Columbia university Analog Photonics Corning Analysis Group Dartmouth College & University of Toronto Apple Inc. Databricks Inc. Applied Materials Decibel Tx ASAPP Department of Mathematics, Columbia University Atantares Dongjin semichem Biogen Eastman Chemical Company Boston Consulting Group Edgeworth Economics Boston University EPFL Brandeis/Harvard/Simons Foundation ESADE Broad Institute ETH Zurich Caltech European Commission Carnegie Mellon University ExxonMobil Cavium, Inc. Facebook

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Chulabhorn Research Institute Facebook Oculus Research ClearView Healthcare Partners Five Rings Capital Google Fondation de Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Harvard Medical School / MGH Princeton University

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health PULSE Institute, SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford University

Harvard University Rice University Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Janelia Research Campus Rigetti Computing

IBM Saint Gobain Recherche IMC Financial Markets Secunetics Infor Dynamic Science Labs Shell Institute of Materials Research and Engineering Simon Kucher Intel Corporation Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Istanbul Bilgi University - Faculty of Architecture Stanford Kcg Sungkyunkwan University Lam Research Tesla motors Los Alamos National Lab Teza Lyft Inc. The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Lygos Thinknear Massachusetts Institute of Technology Twitter Max Planck Institute for Chemistry UC Berkeley McKinsey & Co. University of Bologna Microsoft Corporation University of British Columbia Microsoft Research University of California, Berkeley microsoft research University of California, Davis Mie University University of Cambridge Mobi Systems University of Chile

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory University of Colorado Boulder/Howard Hughes Medical Institute

National Institutes of Health University of Minnesota

Northwestern University University of Southern California Marshall School of Business

Oak Ridge National Lab University of Tokyo OC&C Strategy Consultants University of Toronto Oracle Labs University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) Oregon State University Vatic Labs PathAI Waymo Peking University Woobo Inc. Planet Labs XTuit Pharmaceuticals

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WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE SALARY OF WORKING MIT PHD GRADUATES?

Mean Salary Median Salary Salary Range

PhD going into postdoctoral positions $58,246 $52,500 $28,800-$142,500

PhD going on to other positions $120,016 $119,500 $14,000-$285,000

WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE BONUS (FOR THOSE RECEIVING A BONUS) OF WORKING MIT PHD GRADUATES?

Mean bonus Bonus range

Doctorate $26,331 $1,500-$120,000

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF WORKING GRADUATES NEGOTIATED THEIR SALARY AND BONUS?

Negotiated Salary Negotiated Bonus

Doctorate 27.1% 20.7%

WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE NEGOTIATED INCREASE IN SALARY AND BONUS OF WORKING GRADUATES?

Average Increase in Salary Average Increase in Bonus

Doctorate $8,175 $11,904

WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF JOB APPLICATIONS, JOB INTERVIEWS, AND JOB OFFERS?

Job Applications Job Interviews Job Offers

Doctorate 7.6 4.5 2.9

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2017 AVERAGE SALARY BY COURSE FOR PHDS GOING INTO POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS (US DOLLARS) The numbers of respondents are in columns titled N# after each salary amount. Blank represents < 1 response.

Department (Course Number) Salary N#

Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) - -

Mechanical Engineering (2) $53,200 10

Materials Science and Engineering (3) $58,238 5

Architecture (4) $67,500 2

Chemistry (5) $48,310 8

EECS (6) $68,415 13

Biology (7) $48,556 9

Physics (8) $68,250 8

Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) $58,167 3

Chemical Engineering (10) $57,844 3

Urban Studies and Planning (11) - -

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (12) $53,800 10

Economics (14) $76,925 4

Sloan School of Management (15) - -

Aeronautics and Astronautics (16) $78,000 2

Political Science (17) - -

Mathematics (18) $67,889 9

Biological Engineering (20) $55,000 2

Nuclear Science and Engineering (22) $58,000 2

Computational and Systems Biology [CSB] - -

Engineering Systems Division [ESD] $55,000 2

History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society [HASTS] $44,500 2

Health, Science, and Technology [HST] - -

Media Arts and Sciences [MAS] $50,000 3

Microbiology - -

Operation Research $58,750 2

Linguistics and Philosophy (24) - -

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $48,203 6

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2017 AVERAGE EMPLOYMENT SALARY BY COURSE FOR PHDS GOING INTO OTHER POSITIONS (US DOLLARS) The numbers of respondents are in columns titled N# after each salary amount. Blank represents < 1 response.

Course (Course Number) Salary N# Bonus N#

Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) - - - -

Mechanical Engineering (2) $115,262 21 $ 22,500 10

Materials Science and Engineering (3) $104,636 11 $10,500 6

Architecture (4) $80,333 3 - -

Chemistry (5) $101,143 7 $8,333 3

EECS (6) $134,331 39 $38,111 27

Biology (7) $126,667 3 - -

Physics (8) $105,200 5 - -

Brain and Cognitive Sciences (9) $116,875 4 - -

Chemical Engineering (10) $107,250 8 $13000 5

Urban Studies and Planning (11) $67,500 2 - -

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (12) $113,667 3 - -

Economics (14) $162,333 9 $55,000 4

Sloan School of Management (15) $195,000 4 - -

Aeronautics and Astronautics (16) $119,369 13 $15,000 7

Political Science (17) $110,500 4 - -

Mathematics (18) $109,000 3 - -

Biological Engineering (20) $109,667 6 $11,250 4

Nuclear Science and Engineering (22) $124,000 6 $31,667 3

Computational and Systems Biology [CSB] - - - -

Engineering Systems Division [ESD] $114,000 3 - -

History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society [HASTS] - - - -

Health, Science, and Technology [HST] $135,000 2 - -

Media Arts and Sciences [MAS] $97,500 2 -

Microbiology - - - -

Operations Research $95,500 4 - -

Linguistics and Philosophy (24) - - - -

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $70,000 2 - -

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2017 AVERAGE EMPLOYMENT SALARY BY INDUSTRY FOR PHDS

Industry # Employers Salary Range Average Salary

Aerospace & Defense 14

ATI, Draper Labs, MIT Lincoln laboratory, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planet Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, The Boeing Company,

United States Air Force

$100,000 - $150,000

$118,129

Architecture & Urban Planning 3 EPFL, Istanbul Bilgi University - Faculty of

Architecture, Unidentified architecture firm $16,000 - $150,000 $82,000

Automotive & Transportation 4 General Motors, Lyft Inc., Tesla motors, Zoox $104,400 -

$145,000 $126,100

Chemicals & Materials 11

3M, Applied Materials, Corning, Eastman Chemical Company, Harvard University,

Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Lygos, Northwestern University, Saint Gobain

Recherche, The Dow Chemical Company, Zydex Industries

$45,000 - $135,000 $82,180

Computer Hardware 7 Analog Devices, Apple, Intel, Microsoft Corporation, Rigetti Computing, Secunetics

$80,000 - $135,000 $114,643

Computer Software 29

ACME AtronOmatic, LLC, Amazon, ASAPP, Databricks Inc., Facebook, Facebook Oculus Research, Google, Google (Alphabet), Green

Hills Software, MathWorks, Microsoft Research, MIT, Mobi Systems, National Center for

Supercomputing Applications, Oracle Labs, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Twitter, University of Washington, Woobo Inc.

$52,000 - $210,000 $133,948

Consulting 13 Boston Consulting Group, CAN, Edgeworth

Economics, LEK, McKinsey & Company, OC&C Strategy Consultants, Simon Kucher

$80,000 - $200,000

$137,808

Education (postdoc) 54

Boston University, Brandeis/Harvard/Simons Foundation, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon

University Center for Theory of Quantum Matter,

University of Colorado Boulder, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard Medical

School, Columbia University, ETH Zurich, Fondation de Sciences Mathématiques de Paris,

Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Medical School / MGH, Harvard School Of Public Health,

Harvard University, International Security Program, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

in the Sciences, MIT, Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon State University, Princeton University, Rice University, Scripps

Institution of Oceanography, Stanford University, SUTD, UCLA/NSF, University of

Bologna, University of British Columbia,

$34,000 - $86,400 $55,741

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Industry # Employers Salary Range Average Salary

University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Colorado

Boulder/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of Toronto, University of Washington, University

of Washington eScience Institute and School of Oceanography, University Pierre et Marie Curie

(Paris 6), Vassar College

Education (nonpostdoc) 31

Boston College Carroll School of Management, California State University Los Angeles, CMU,

Columbia University, Cornell University, ESADE, Harvard business school, Harvey Mudd College,

MIT, New York University, Northwestern University, Peking University, Princeton

University, St. Ambrose University, Sungkyunkwan University, The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, University of California Davis, University of

California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, University of Chile,

University of Colorado Boulder, University of Minnesota, University of Notre Dame,

University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, US Naval Academy, UToronto

$50,000 - $285,000 $117,484

Energy & Utilities 6 Exelon, ExxonMobil, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Princeton University, Shell

$47,500 - $135,000 $100,750

Engineering 38

Agency of Science, Technology And Research, Analog Photonics, Apple, Arup, Atantares,

Cavium, Inc., Creare, Dongjin semichem, Draper Laboratory, Google, Harvard University, HRL

Laboratories, LLC, IBM, Intel Corporation, John Rogers, Lam Research, Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Lincoln Laboratory,

Northwestern University, Nucleus Scientific, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center,

PULSE Institute, SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford University, Sea-Bird Scientific, Tesla, Thinknear, U.C. Berkeley, Vatic Labs, Vicarious

Surgical, Waymo

$40,000 - $200,000 $90,505

Financial Services (Commercial Banking,

Insurance) 4 Five Rings Capital, IMC Financial Markets, KCG,

Teza $120,000 - $180,000 $150,000

Government 12 American Institute of Physics/US Department of

State, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Commission,

$48,000-$140,000 $73,628

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Industry # Employers Salary Range Average Salary

Government Accountability Office, Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, National Institute of Standards

and Technology, Naval Research Laboratory, NIH, NIST, Oak Ridge National Lab, Sandia

National Labs, UMD

Health/Medicine 24

Biogen, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Broad Institute, Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung

(German Federal Risk Institute), Centre for Trophoblast Research - University of

Cambridge, Chulabhorn Research Institute, ClearView Healthcare Partners, Foundation

Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, HHMI / UC

Berkeley, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Janelia Research Campus, Manus Robotics, Massachusetts General Hospital,

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MIT, PathAI, Philips Healthcare, Seven Bridges

Genomics, Shalek Lab / MIT, Stanford University, UT Southwestern Medical Center,

Verily (Formerly Google Life Sciences)

$14,000-$150,000 $72,208

Industrial and Consumer Manufacturing

(Construction, Product Manufacturing,

Consumer Products)

3 Apple, Aquatic Brewing Company, Motus Integrated Technologies

$40,000 - $190,000 $130,000

Investment Banking (Mutual Funds and

Money Management) 4 Flagship Pioneering, Goldman Sachs, RA Capital

Management $77,500 - $125,000 $106,875

Law - - - -

Military - - - -

Non-Profit Agency or NGO 3 Center for Strategic and International Studies,

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, NBER $28,800-$177,000 $91,933

Pharmaceuticals (Biotech, Medical Device) 15

Biogen, Decibel Tx, First Light Biosciences, Merck & Co, Neon Therapeutics, Oliver Jonas/Brigham and Women's Hospital,

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Relay Therapeutics, Tessella, The Rockefeller

University, Third Rock Ventures, University of Tokyo, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, xCella, XTuit

Pharmaceuticals

$42,000 - $160,000 $91,200