On Sunday, 24 January 2016 16:38:47 UTC, wrote:

Nearly all MetO employees are degree qualified. The median salary is £30K.
It will be double that in ECMWF.

I wonder if that is why they're seen as the world leaders - i.e. attract the best by paying them well (and the tax benefits as well as the salary)?

That's not meant to be inflammatory by the way (unlike most of the newsgroup in the last 72 hours).

Richard