QUESTION: Out of everybody working on the Mars project, what are the higher salaries? I am just wondering about researchers, scientists, engineers, and anybody else that deals in the scientific aspect of the mission. ANSWER from Donna Shirley on August 3, 1997: Engineers at NASA are not starving, but are not rich, either. Average salaries for people with, say, 20 years of experience, are probably $80,000 per year. Donna Shirley