>Just to add MHO, post-doctoral research position have the least pay for the
>most education.

I whole-heartedly agree.  My husband (Ph.D. in biochemistry) was a post-doc
at Brown University.  They paid a summer undergraduate worker more than
they paid my husband.  The only reason I (also Ph.D. in biochemistry) was
paid more was because I am also a certified medical technologist and my
post-doc was at a nearby hospital.  They needed to pay me med. tech. wages
for me to be allowed to do some of the work they needed done in the lab.

Donna J. Spannaus-Martin, Ph.D., MT (ASCP)
Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Sciences,
University of Tennessee, Memphis
http://www.utmem.edu/allied/Med.Tech./med.tech.html