Why is the salary of the Observatory so low?

Original title: "Eye of the Sky" recruits people, and the annual salary is a little low.

FAST, known as "Eye of the Sky", the National Astronomical Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently encountered embarrassment. On October 28th, Zhang Shuxin, its deputy engineering manager and office director, said that FAST had originally recruited 24 people, but only half of them have been recruited at present, which is far from the expectation.

It is understood that after the official commissioning of FAST, 24-hour observation will be started, and researchers will be on duty in three shifts, while there are only more than 2 existing resident personnel. For this reason, FAST launched the recruitment of talents nationwide.

The majors involved in this recruitment are all popular majors, such as data processing, data center operation and communication maintenance. Talents in these fields are also the targets of many private enterprises, especially Internet companies.

Compared with the high requirements of the post, the treatment offered by FAST this time makes people feel a little stingy. The personnel recruited by FAST are all employed, and the annual salary is about 1, yuan, including the resident subsidy.

The so-called "employment system" refers to contract workers. Although equal pay for equal work has been emphasized in recent years, it is still inferior to employees with formal establishment, and there will still be great differences and gaps in some welfare benefits.

as for the salary, 1, yuan a year, frankly speaking, is not high. If you remove the social security that must be deducted, I am afraid that there will not be many. According to statistics, in 217, the average wage of employees in non-private units in Guizhou, where FAST is located, was 71,795 yuan, while the average wage of scientific research and technical service industry was 79,826 yuan. From this, it can be seen that even in the local area, this wage level does not have much advantage, let alone economically developed areas. What's more, researchers have to face many practical difficulties such as remote residence, difficult conditions and long-term separation from their families. Comparing the two, it is expected that no one can be recruited with such salary and treatment.

of course, if someone puts all the boards that "don't value talents" on FAST, it seems unfair to me. If you can't give a "high salary", I am afraid it is not stingy, but a helpless move limited by conditions. This is also a common problem in many institutions under the background of talent marketization. The reason behind it is still caused by the rigid employment mechanism. There are many restrictions on recruiting people in this kind of unit. Under the condition of full staffing, if it is necessary to recruit people, then the salary of its expansion staff needs to be solved by the unit itself. In the case of not generating income, many units can only save this money from limited funds. In this way, "low treatment" has naturally become a normal state.

FAST is a major national science and technology infrastructure, the largest single-aperture and most sensitive radio telescope in the world. Its significance and important role in domestic scientific research are self-evident. Therefore, more resources should be invested in the construction and maintenance of the project. Although scientific research can't be quick success and instant benefit, we can't always look at money, but giving researchers a decent life and a salary that can reflect their value is probably a realistic problem that units like FAST must solve in the future. Even if it is tilted in salary, it is understandable.

"Eye of the Sky" can see the distant stars, and it should also see the shortcomings of its own scientific research talent team.