Latest Employment Data for Physicists and Related Scientists
These reports highlight the qualitative changes in the initial employment
of recent degree recipients. They document the salaries earned by experienced
physicists across employment sectors and degree levels, the size of the
physics academic workforce as well as the availability of faculty openings
and profiles of new hires.
Trends in the Physics Academic Workforce
Since 1998, the academic job market for physicists has been influenced by the retirements of
faculty members. These highlights show the relationship between the retirement rates
(1998-2006) and number of faculty members recruited by physics departments. The retirement
rate peaked in 2000, leading to an increase in the number of faculty members hired. Although
the retirement rate has been decreasing since 2000, the number of faculty members hired has
remained the same.
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Who's Hiring Physics Bachelors?
A state by state listing of many of the companies that hired new physics
bachelors from the classes of 2004, 2005, and 2006.
2006 Salary Data
Overall trends and salaries for physicists and related scientists.
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Initial Employment Report: Physics and Astronomy Degree Recipients of
2003 & 2004
This report describes the initial employment and educational paths pursued by physics
and astronomy degree recipients at the bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD levels. The
report includes starting salaries, primary work activities, ratings of professional
challenge and other aspects of initial employment. The report also describes the fields
of study and types of support for physics degree recipients who continued their education.
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Earth and Space Science PhDs, Class of 2003
Sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Geological
Institute (AGI), this report documents initial employment patterns, starting
salaries, and demographic characteristics for recent PhD graduates in
the geosciences.
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2004 Physics & Astronomy Academic Workforce
This is the latest in a series of biennial reports on the number of faculty, turnover, retirements,
and recruitments at physics degree-granting departments. The number of faculty positions in
physics has increased by about 10% since 1994. However, more positions are being filled with
part-time and temporary faculty than ten years ago. The number of minority faculty members
increased significantly at physics departments, and new female faculty were hired at rates
consistent with degree production in the past. This report also provides data on the relationship
between the number of full-time equivalent faculty and the number of bachelor's degrees awarded.
For the first time, this report contains data on stand-alone astronomy departments.
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Career Paths for Physicists with PhD's from the US
Every two years, the National Science Foundation resurveys a panel of Doctorate holders,
selected to represent all working age recipients of science, engineering and health PhD's
from US universities. These data provide a unique snapshot of career developments at all
stages of physicists' working lives. The current brief report is a first look at what this
dataset offers.
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Physics Bachelors with Master's Degrees
This report documents the employment patterns of those who earned physics
bachelor's degrees in the early 1990s, earned master's degrees in a variety
of fields, and were working five to eight years later. Master's degree
fields, reasons for attending graduate school, and preparedness for graduate
school are all discussed. Also documented are employment fields, salaries,
knowledge and skills used on the job, and evaluation of undergraduate
physics education.
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The Early Careers of Physics Bachelors
An examination of the employment patterns of people with no degrees other
than physics bachelor's degrees, five to eight years after graduation.
The report includes common job activities and skills used on the job.
It also describes these physics bachelors' evaluations of how well physics
education prepared them for careers.
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2004 Industrial Salary
Summary
This article appeared in The Industrial Physicist. It summarizes the salary
and employment data on physicists and related scientists working in the
private sector.
2004 Society
Profile
A collection of data tables that describes the characteristics of the
membership of the 10 AIP Member Societies
2002 Society
Profile
A collection of data tables that describes the characteristics of the
membership of the 10 AIP Member Societies
State-level
Salaries
Contact information for the 35 states that publish salary information
on their technical work force.
Enrollments
and Faculty in Physics
This talk was given at the Department Chairs conference convened by APS
and AAPT on June 7-9, 2002. It provides a statistical overview of the
current and historic trends in physics enrollments from high school through
to the PhD, and includes data on physics faculty in universities and 4-year
colleges, including their numbers and age, as well as characteristics
of new faculty hired during 2000
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