I would like the thank everyone who responded to my personnel survey last week.
I received reponses from 27 different institutions (28 if you include my own);
most of these are in the US, but two were from Europe, and one from Australia.
The reponses, and staffing levels vary quite a bit. For this reason I have
included what I thought was the relevent information from everyones reponses. I
have removed any references to names, and replaced the institutions with their
approximate geographical locations (and a reference to whether they are public
or private). I also removed any references to instruments other than NMR and
EPR, and removed references to computer data stations (mostly). In cases
where the instruments a person was in charge of were not specified (and, I
didn't originally ask that they be included), and I could not contact them,
I tried to ferret this out of the AMMRL directory (it is shown in parenthesis
in the cases where I have done that). Some people mentioned that it would be
nice to have a salary survey. I know that there was a small one avialable in
about 1988 (from ALMA I think), but it turned out to be not of much use in my
situation. As occurs in many surveys, a great variety of situations and
responsibilities make it diffucult to directly compare what is going on at your
institution with what is seen elsewhere.
Tom Pratum, pratum@uwchem.chem.washington.edu
RESULTS OF SURVEY:
East Coast of US Public Univ:
I have myself (Ph.D. Chemist), one staff
spectroscopist (BA level full time classified slot), and one nmr TA.
We have 4 supercon instruments (500, 400, 300, 200)
East Coast of US Public Univ.
one staff spectroscopist;
three NMR TAs.
four supercon NMRs, 500, 400 and two 200 MHz.
West Coast of US Public Univ:
there are two full-time staff nmr spectroscopists
(phd level) who take care of a 500, two 300's, a 200MHz
departmental solution nmr spectrometers;one of the two
spectroscopists also does some optical spectroscopy work.
East Coast of US Public Univ.:
In addition to myself as 'NMR Director' there is only one other part
time assistant who does the routine weekly fills and tuning and some
training and troubleshooting.
basically adding an AMX500 next month and just got an ASX300 in
April, these in addition to the routine IBM200 for protons and XL300 for
routine multinuclear liquids.
Then in brief, 4 instruments (500, 300, 300, 200), 1 spectroscopist,
1/4 assistant
Midwestern US Public Univ.:
2 people: lab director, paid 80% by central administration (grad
school), 20% from grants staff spectroscopist, paid 50% by NSF
EPSCoR grant, 40% grad school, 10% by lab
3 instruments: AM-500, GE QE-300, Varian XL-300
Western US Public Univ.:
We have an 80% full-time Ph.D. spectroscipist, lab manager
a 50% full-time Ph.D. spectroscopist
a full-time B.S. technician
a 70% full-time electronics engineer
11 Spectrometers (500, 400, 2x300, 2x200, 1x100)
Midwestern US Public Univ.:
PERSONNEL:
1.) Instrumentation Director-- Full-time, Hard-money salary line
2.) One 1/2 time TA equiv. Instrument Lab Assistant -- Dept. TA
budget.
INSTRUMENTATION
1. Chemagnetics M-100S (Solid-State NMR)
2. Varian VXR-200 NMR
3. Nicolet NT-360WB NMR (with Techmag upgrade)
4. G.E. Omega 300 NMR
5. G.E. Omega 500 NMR
Central(Midwest east of Mississippi) US Public Univ.:
I usually have only one half-time RA to help
me with a 2-instrument facility (500, 300).
East Coast of US Public Univ.:
I am in charge of two high field instrument a 300 MHz and 400 MHz.
I am the only one who trains users and maintains these instruments.
East Coast of US Public Univ.:
1 staff spectroscopist
1 (6 hrs per week ) workstudy
1 360 MHz Bruker, 1 Jeol FX90Q, 2 Varian EM360A
West Coast Private Univ.:
The Facility has one manager(myself), a new spectroscopist (full
time) and 7 graduate student assistants (part time, 4 hrs each week)
We have 8 superconducting NMR spectrometers (2x500, 400, 3x300,
200).
Western US Public Univ.:
I'm a one man dept. My salary comes from outside the
normal dept. budget.
(2x300, 100, 80)
Southeastern US Private Univ.:
NMR specialist: 1
Elect. Technician: 1
GE500, GE400, Bruker200
Eastern US Private Univ.:
3 persons
1 Departmental, 2 Lab funds
Breakdown: 1 faculty on soft money (generated from nmr lab funds
and grants)
1 staff spectroscopist, BS level (generated from nmr lab
funds)
1 electronics specialist (departmental, shared)
Number of instruments 4
500, 400,300,200 MHz
Australian Univ.:
Two Ph.D staff and two TA's.
We have two Bruker AMX400's, two AC200F's one electromagnetic
machine.
UK Univ.:
In this department there are three spectrometers and two
'full-time-equivalent' staff to cover the upkeep of four spectrometers
and the running of one and a half. This will remain the same even
though we are about to add a 270 and a 500!
East Coast of US Public Univ.:
NMR manager and repair ....... one full time staff
nmr T.A. ( changeover and basic PM) ... one and 1/2 full time
nmr /ms assistant ............. 1/2 nmr 1/2 mass spec split duties full
time
Total number of spectrometers : 8
500; 400; two 200; two 60; one 90; and one EPR
All supported by department overhead ( not from users )
East Coast of US Public Univ.:
Personnel:
One full-time PhD. scientist
salary - 75% state of Virginia funds, 25% dept. funds.
State and Chem. Dept. fully support the NMR lab,
No charges are made for NMR use or my time.
Instruments fully supported:
GE QE-300, GE GN-300, NIC NT-360 w/solids, GE Omega 500
Instruments partially supported:
2 Varian Unity Plus 500's (about 15% support for each)
Midwestern US Public Univ.:
there are 2
Ph.D. level positions, NMR Supervisor and NMR Spectroscopist. Both
are full-time staff positions. All of the positions are "line-items" in
the Universityand/or department budget. Instrument use fees
technically do not pay our salaries.
We have: VXR 300
MSL 300
NIC 300
WM 200
EPR
We also (by contract) take care of the Biochemistry Department's
Unity 500.
German Univ.:
1 staff spectroscopist (myself)
1 post doc with temporary contract
2 technicans permanent
4 instruments (arx-200, ac-300, am-400, amx-500)
West Coast of US Public Univ.:
2 full time Ph.D. level people; 1.3 funded by central campus,
the rest by recharges.
3/4 of a graduate student, funded by recharges.
1/2 of an undergraduate, funded by recharges.
We currently have five spectrometers, three vertical bore high
resolution type (omega-500, AMX-400, omega-300) and two
horizontal bore imaging type (omega-7T-CSI and CSI-2-2T).
East Coast of US Private Univ.:
I have two technicians, two part-time students (one graduate, one
undergrad)
Anyway, in my case (with 10 supercon NMR [2x500, 400, 2x300,
270, 200, 80], and 2 EPR)
Western US Public Univ.:
Unity500, UnityPlu400, Gemini300
1 Full-time staff member (state-line, (or hard money))
1 50%-time NMR TA (soft-money)
At present, no recovery of salary from user fees.
Canadian Univ.:
Personnel:
Manager(myself) paid by University
Research Associate " from NMR income
1/2time Technician " " " "
NMR specialist " " " "(1 day a week)
Instruments:
Bruker AM500 Multinuclear and solids
Bruker AC300 Multinuclear
Bruker AC200 Multinuclear
Bruker MSL100 Solids
Midwestern US Public Univ.:
We currently have two full time people, myself and a spectroscopist
(Ph.D.) plus a 1/4 time TA. The department pays for my salary and the TA,
and in the past for the spectroscopist, but the latter salary will in the
future come from NMR Lab funds (once we find someone). We have Varian
Unity 500 and 300, Bruker AC-300, AC-200 (with autosampler), and AC-100
(with solids accessory), and an NT-300 with Tecmag Libra. I also maintain
the departmental EPR machine, a Bruker ESP-300.
Central(Midwestern east of Mississippi) US Public Univ.:
# of personnel - 6 full-time staff paid 30% from user fees, 70%
department
2 undergraduate hourly, 100% from user fees
composed of: 1 PhD director
2 PhD spectroscopists
1 MS electrical engineer
1 BS assistant spectroscopist
1 non-degree staff (Computer Analyst in Govt. parlance)
Duties: Director - manages the lab, interacts with faculty
electrical engineer - repair, maintenance, etc. for all
instruments
everyone else (including non-degree person) has responsibility
for routine maintenance, training, checkouts, etc. for
_two_ instruments. The PhD's have development and experiment
implementation responsibility. The non-degree person does
all of our billing.
Instruments:(500, 400, 3x300, 200, EPR)
Central Canadian Univ.:
Manager: AMX500, AM300, X32 workstation, WP80 CW, WH90,
360 WB magnet for solids with AMX 500 console
Technician, level 3: operates AM300, processes data on X32 and Sun
workstations.
Technician, level 5: operates AMX500 and associated 360WB magnet.
Eastern Canadian Univ.:
We have 5 solution NMR spectrometers including a 500. There is a
full-time PhD in charge of those instruments who must do everything
from routine maintenance to collaborating with the faculty in doing
research. They have finally found someone else (a qualified grad
student) to do the training on the routine instruments (200 and 270
Mhz) to help her out a bit, also one day a week at most.
I am in charge of 2 solid state spectrometers, with the same duties
as outlined above, with (unfortunately) more running of "routine"
spectra than I really care to do.
West Coast of US Public Univ.:
1 PhD NMR manager (line item state budget), 1/4 TA, 1/10 RA
(supports one instrument)
Instruments:
AM500, AF300, NR200, VXR300.