HACKER Q&A
📣 Quinzel

Why is the pay rate for these roles at Neuralink so low?


I was looking at jobs at Neuralink out of curiosity. Partly because I am actually genuinely interested in what kind of clinical roles they might have. I work in a technical/clinical role, and neurosurgery is one of my key specialties I work in. I suppose it would be like a top dream job to do what I do in for a company like Neuralink that is doing cool new sciencey-stuff… but not for the shitty pay rates I just saw!

I saw the following roles, but they seem to pay so unbelievably poorly:

https://neuralink.com/careers/apply/?gh_jid=5621770003&gh_src=c356a2533us

https://neuralink.com/careers/apply/?gh_jid=5761185003&gh_src=c356a2533us

I’m not from the US so what I was wondering is this the sort of pay rates people in the states get for these kind of jobs? Or is Neuralink just cheapskates?

  👤 MattGaiser Accepted Answer ✓
Medical residents traditionally earn very little money in the USA. They have to wait to become full doctors.
👤 logicalmonster
There's no right answer, but do you value a short-term or long-term monetary payoff more?

If you're content playing a long-game and taking a bet that Neuralink is successful as a company, it might be better for a career to spend some time with a well-known company like that and then cashing in with your next role rather than finding a little better pay at an unknown hospital right now and not having any notable career accomplishments for the rest of your career.

👤 starbase
> your compensation package will include two major components: salary and equity.

> Meals provided.

Equity and good meals at a startup with deep pockets, vs no equity and cafeteria food at the hospital down the road. Pay's the same.