Biogang:Projects/Bioinformatics Career Survey 2008 Results
Please post results derived from the career survey here, with your name and link back to your own blog or website (if you have one). All data posted here has a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike License.
Happiness
Histogram of bioinformatican happiness. Michael Barton
Box and whisker plot of bioinformatician happiness factored by career position. Michael Barton
Frequency barplot of bioinformatician likes and dislikes. Michael Barton
Research Areas
Barplot of frequency of research areas. Michael Barton
Dendrogram of bioinformatics research area clustering. Michael Barton
Biology/Computer Science background bias in bioinformatics research areas. Michael Barton
Programming Languages
Barplot of programming languages appearing in the survey at least 10 times. Michael Barton
Tools & Applications
Barplot of applications appearing in the survey at least 10 times. Rebecca J. Holz
Barplot of tools appearing in the survey at least 20 times. Rebecca J. Holz
Salary
Very quick and dirty look at salaries in industry vs. academia:
- Academic Salary Mean/Median: $36,520 / $33,712
- Industry Salary Mean/Median: $66,239 / $64,235
Salary/Years Experience:
- Academic Mean/Median: $10,970 / $8,333
- Industry Mean/Median: $17,410 / $12,000
