For PhD level position,150K is industry average.
In Mt saini, AP's base salary range from 66k to 135k. But it is nothing
compared to those can print money for the department:
The city’s top earner was urologist and prostate-cancer specialist Dr.
David Samadi, whose 2012 compensation came to $7.6 million. He was
chief of robotics and minimally invasive surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital
before moving to Lenox Hill Hospital last June.
Not far behind Samadi was his Mount Sinai colleague Dr. Andrew Hecht, head
of spine surgery, whose compensation came to $6.9 million.