Academic Salaries

In this section we present an estimation of salaries paid to PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Researchers and to the different Professor levels described in the section Academic Positions & Titles.The information about academic salaries is available only to Informatics Europe members. Once registered with your institutional email, please log in here to see the estimated salaries and country specific notes.

For each country, highly relevant notes describe the specifics of that particular country as well as the assumptions undertaken to estimate the related figures.

The estimated salaries figures CANNOT be understood or interpreted without these explanations.

We are reporting here only earned yearly gross values (rounded to the nearest integer), without taking into consideration the different tax and pensions systems, and therefore without reference to final net values earned by academics and the total gross costs borne by employers.

Considerable variations exist between different countries. Any comparison across countries requires great care in light of the differences in career and salary systems, as well as the different levels of each position. In addition, in some cases, e.g. in Switzerland, where the figures apply at the national level, there may be significant variation between regions, institutions and seniority levels. Factors as individual contracts and bonuses can also play an important role.