[PhDs] Stanford Stipend increase for next year sucks...

[Nolan Lem]

Hey Mark,

Great that you noticed this, is this a departmental thing or is this being
applied more broadly across all PhD stipends?



On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:55 PM Mark Rau <mrau at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> In case anyone wants to get angry, I charted the stipend increase vs.
> inflation
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dcZ65WT7dyWk_MdgeVLtEPEOC_JnE3VjiE6QdRY92J0/edit?usp=sharing>.
> It is based on a 50% RA quarterly stipend. We are getting shafted next
> year, they only increased the stipends by 2% (as opposed to the typical
> ~4%). And this is especially bad since inflation for 2022 is sitting at
> 8.5% and was 7% in 2021 (when we had a 3.25% stipend increase, also bad).
>
> Not sure if there is anyone we can bring this up to, but it's pretty bad.
> I also thought about adding in the average on-campus housing cost, but I
> don't have that data (and don't want to calculate it all, but I know it
> exists somewhere and is also bad).
>
> Mark
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Nolan Lem
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Stanford University
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