After I had been working there for about a year and a half, it dawned on me that I was chronically underpaid. Salary info obtained online seemed to agree that Master's level statisticians in the twin cities typically fetched a higher salary. Yet the way my position was funded, they really couldn't afford the market value.
The job started off really fun, but gradually ate more and more of my life. By the time that I left for another company, I was working about 65-hour weeks on average, which I felt was too much. The thing that really killed it for me though was that my role was basically a billable hours position, which was bad enough, but every suggestion that I gave to improve how my time was accounted for was basically ignored. It seems like the problems plaguing the niche I occupied were never worth consideration for the people that could do anything about them. It became clear to me that I was giving a lot more than I was getting, and there was no evidence at all of any concrete plan on their part to do anything about that.
