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Research tech jobs pay about as much as graduate school in the field pays. In biology, techs and graduate students make around $30k a year -- plenty of money, even in a city like Boston. I think physics grad students tend to have slightly lower stipends than biology (and so techs likely make less money, too), but stipends/tech salaries in these fields are definitely enough to live on. I've never heard of a tech having to take another job to make ends meet.
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To this day, it still baffles me why bio jobs pay so low, while bio grad stipends pay so (relatively) high, such that the two are practically equivalent. Contrast that with, say, engineering, where the jobs pay far more than do the grad stipends, often times by 3 or even 4x.