Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
Where do they finish?
It depends on what they achieve really.
If they aren't ambitious and just plod along then add about £10k to the number.
If they are ambitious and go for promotion then most professors (non-clinical) will be in the £60-70k bracket, but that's a long road for most researchers/academics, it's not a postdoc one minute and a professor the next.
Promotion is dependent on a number of things including high quality publications and grant income (researchers and research academics, teaching academics have slightly different criteria).