What kind of money do astronomers make?

Answer 1

The average annual earnings of an astronomer: $81,690
The middle 50% earned between 53,k to 106k per year.
The lowest 10% earned less than 40K per year &
The highest 10% earned about 126k.

Id say if you were to become an astronomer, figure you'll be making 80,000+ per year.
That aint not bad!!

Answer 2

If you want to make money... do not be an astronomer.

Astronomers amke their money primarily through grants and lecturing. Other sources can be through supervising or advising projects or linking to an agency.

Grants: A grant is where you want to research something and so you go out and look for investors to support you through the research, a portion of the grant is for the researcher. Grants can come from university, private investors, and agencies. This method is the most common, and has low job security and little pay.

Lecturing: Often Astronomers are linked to universities as a researcher, as payment for their link to the university, the astronomer is asked to lecture in astronomy, mathematics, physics, etc. Usually has good job security if you are willing to teach.

Supervising and Advisory: These are positions that can be earned through a lifetime of working as an astronomer, to get to this position you often need to have been working in the area for a long time. This is the best paid work, but is hard to get.

Agencies: Several agencies linked to space (NASA, satelite manufacturers, SETI, etc) will hire astronomers. This is usually dependant on their requirements. Often this job is linked to funding wither through grants or government funding.

Answer 3

They are almost all college professors and make the same kind of money as any other college professor.

Answer 4

money is money, who care....