[Haskell-cafe] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Functional Programming

[Iain Lane]

Bryan Burgers wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Graham Hutton <gmh at cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Salary  will be  within the  range 25,134  - 32,796  pounds  per year,
>> depending  on qualifications  and experience.   The post  is available
>> immediately, and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 3 years.
> 
> I don't mean to diminish the seriousness of your message, but why is
> the salary range so exact? Couldn't you have just rounded the upper
> bound to 32,768 for the sake of readability?
> 
> Bryan

I would imagine that they come from the University's salary scales[1]. 
As for why the salaries on there are so exact, that's anyone's guess.

Iain

[1] http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hr/scales/r-t010807%2B.pdf