How much do I make
How much do I make from Brad Delong’s Grasping Realityis worth a read and some comparative figuring. Comments including our own Robert Waldmann are instructive.
Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy.
Thanks for the plug. Brad makes much less that I thought (of course I don’t know what it’s like to work for a bankrupt government, since I work for the fiscally sound Italian Republic). However, he is on a flight to Narita with 12 people in the cabin, so I think he’s flying first class (he did stress the perks). Or maybe it’s a tiny local plane flying from some Buddha forsaken small town in Japan.
Still, you have to admit close to $200K total comp for a part time job ain’t chicken feed. But maybe it’s the rough working environment that justifies the pay? Or wait, I almost forgot. It’s the PhD, isn’t?