If your yearly pay is 100k and you work 50 hours then you're getting 41 an hour. If your pay is 100k but you're working 80 hours a week then your pay is 26 an hour. This is bad.

In science you have to concentrate more but you don't get as much money as in business. So basically while business people are chilling and getting 80k while sitting in meetings and making PowerPoint, the science guy is getting 60k and he has to deal with boring stuff. More people should ditch science to make it more lucrative, and make it's salary 10%-20 higher than everything else.

Till then it's not worth it.

I've just been picked up by a consulting firm before graduation, instead of continuing to do a PhD.

You should too