Stanford University reviews

Academic org salaries do not compete with industry Difficult and/or unusual to get bonus -- even annual salary increases are not high (though this is also dependent on dept) and are not necessarily taking inflation into consideration Somewhat of a burnout culture, high expectations, high workload and high standards Faculty above all others -- little genuine appreciation for administrative teams Even 4-6% raise range is talked about as high for a full blown promotion

Research staff is chronically underpaid, and without possibilities of their own grant applications. Benefits are nothing special compared to the rest of the Silicon Valley. Faculty, some of whom are seriously overpaid, routinely over-use research staff to train grad students and postdocs instead of themselves taking on that responsibility. Staff in return gets zero credit. Moreover, it is frequently expected that research staff actually do work for grad students and postdocs and not get proper credit in authorships. Given that large fraction of research staff is either still on visas or foreign-born this kind of career-ending abuse is rampant.