The recession has taken its toll on industrial research around the world, according to a scientific-indicators report released on 20 September by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. As of 2009, the report says, PhD holders in industrial-research posts earned less than their counterparts in industrial executive or management jobs. Meanwhile, academic and government researchers earned more than non-researchers in those sectors. Mariagrazia Squicciarini, an OECD economist, says that the recession has squeezed industrial-research funding globally, even as governments struggle to maintain support for scientific research. “In some countries, the government is trying to ensure minimum funding despite the crisis,” she says.