Thank you for your response, Shadowclaw. I am very sorry to hear you're in a similar boat! I understand your emphasis on not reading too much into it (and don't think I was), but I am getting paid a lot less to do a lot more, despite having come in with more experience and credentials than plenty of the students. It is indeed not fair and I came here to move my career forward...and this is not really doing that. So, I will advocate for a different situation, since they do not seem to care. Based on what I know about the lab's funding structure, am not sure how he plans to fund people in the next and following years.