High salary offset by expensive living costs - Graduate Student Researcher UC San Diego Employee Review

Users say... "Great Benefits and once your in super easy to move around internally" "Working with some really great people who believe in the value of public education and cutting" "Very Supportive and flexible hours!" "It's a beautiful campus and on campus restaurants can be reached relatively quickly from the library." "Great location and coworkers." 

Users say... "Low pay (which is to be expected in education and especially at the university level)." "Low salary; very bureaucratic; lots of egos" "Parking is expensive and not very convenient to some places (read: Atkinson Hall)" "a PI has the all the power despite of poor management" "There is no training into how to hire people and the rules constantly change resulting in frustration and wasted effort."