The number of postdoc advice offices at US research institutions has ballooned to 167, up from around 25 in 2003, according to the US National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) in Washington DC. The NPA surveyed offices to learn about postdoc demographics, policies and compensation. Covering an estimated 79,000 postdocs, the offices coordinate services such as career guidance, training and visa information. But very few of the 74 institutions that completed the survey track career outcomes. Most worrisome, says NPA executive director Belinda Huang, is that 70% of offices operate on $40,000 or less a year. “We're concerned about how small these budgets are for the numbers of postdocs they are serving,” she says.