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This is a hard question, but one that gets asked all the time. Some people make no money at all being a vertebrate paleontologist, while others make a decent living. The one thing that is pretty certain is that you won’t get rich being a paleontologist. Most of us do paleontology because we really enjoy it, rather than to make a lot of money.
