Doctoral graduates typically work for universities, government agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and applied research institutions.
Matt Robb, of the consultancy Parthenon, says: "We have done work for universities that want to know which universities rated lower than they are have good people who are ripe for poaching".
Moreover, these physicists mostly work for universities in California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, states that impose hefty income taxes.
The system will be flexible enough that it will also work for universities, professional associations, and corporate board elections.
Rounding out its employment figures, the survey shows that 30% of AAPS members work for universities or other academic institutions and 3% work for government agencies.
Researchers who already have grant money in hand, or work for universities or companies that get money from the federal government, would not be immediately affected.
There are however good jobs doing similar work for universities and research institutions, as staff science writers, public information officers, and so on.
PDW does both paid and unpaid consultancy work for Universities, the United Kingdom government, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, legal claimants and defendants, and insurance companies.
The majority of medical examiners will work for universities, hospitals or government agencies.
Health providers working for university or NGOs were more contended and suggested that they are better placed except the fact that "it (community based work) is low paying than working for big teaching hospital".
