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@anonymouswarrior It’s extremely low.. I teach 80hours and this is maximum I can given my visa unfortunately :/ the contract is really exploiting the PhD students in this in-between situation, but that’s a post for another subReddit..

@mydogsnameisharry No I’m in the writing up year so unfortunately don’t receive my stipend anymore. This is a teaching contract.

@jackster This is such a great resource, thanks for pointing it out! !thanks

@reallyray79 So let me provide the figures then :D the gross salary I’m paid is 18k. With the pension payment it comes to around 1200 per month. This is my only source of income.

Hi, I’m an international PhD student working at a university. I have received my first month’s salary today which I realised was much lower than expected - it’s because they auto-enrolled me into the USS pension scheme. I asked about personal vs employer contributions so apparently I pay 9.8% of...