Four individuals have agreed to be locked inside NASA’s Mars simulator for just over a year. And they’re being paid surprisingly little.
I suppose it’s not too bad. People typically use their wage as they get it, paying for rent/food/utilities. Many of these costs would be covered by the programme, which means they can potentially come out of it a year later with the full 60k.
$60,000 for the entire 378-day mission.
NASA is paying each participant $10 per hour for all waking hours, the Houston Chronicle reports, which adds up to just over $60,000 for the entire 378-day mission.
The current minimum wage in australia is $23.23 when I converted it to USD I got $15.48. It is crazy that they are getting paid less than that for something you would expect to be a high paying job.
They’d probably be research techs otherwise making way less tbh
Based on the article they better hope there isn’t a secret Heisenberg hiding in that group!
