Random lab quote ...

But surely, only graduate students work weekends, late nights, *and* regular office hours!

Elia,
You may have a point there.

OK so how do postdocs and prostitutes compare?

Looking up (on PubMed) prostitutes and hours per week:

de Graaf R, Vanwesenbeeck I, van Zessen G, Straver CJ, Visser JH. Male prostitutes and safe sex: different settings, different risks.
AIDS Care. (1994) 6:277-88.

Street workers worked an average 26 hours per week with 30 clients at 67 guilders per sexual episode.

Obviously we work a lot harder! (as for the pay ...)

So how much is 67 guilders?

Jan 1st 1999 1 euro = 2,20371 Dutch guilders.
So that makes 30.40 euros
Right now 1 U.S. dollars = 0.789951813 Euros
So that makes $38.48 per trick.