Psychology researcher
| Highest | $5,000 / mo · United States |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2–4 yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 4 years bachelor's degree + first paycheck in month 1 of employment |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $5,000max |
| AustraliaIELTS 6.0–6.5 · AUD 30–50k | $4,100 |
| Hong KongIELTS 6.0–6.5 · HK–200k | $3,900 |
| SingaporeIELTS 6.5 · SGD 18–35k | $3,900 |
| United KingdomIELTS 6.0–7.0 · £11–38k | $3,900 |
| CanadaIELTS 6.0–6.5 · CAD 20–40k | $3,800 |
What does the day look like?
A psychology researcher works a standard contract of 37.5 to 40 hours per week, typically Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00. There are no on-call duties or night shifts. However, running testing sessions during evenings and weekends is standard when working with children, employed adults, or clinical outpatients who cannot visit the laboratory during regular business hours.
The imagined part of the job — observing human behaviour and making scientific breakthroughs through deep conversations — accounts for only 10% of the day. The remaining 90% is spent on operational reality: debugging syntax errors in R or Python, building experimental tasks in PsychoPy, OpenSesame, or Gorilla, chasing participants who missed lab appointments, cleaning corrupted CSV data files, washing electrode gel out of EEG caps, and preparing ethics committee applications.
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