Articles
Written for the worker side.
Industry · 2026-07-18
What AI actually does in statistical programming right now
Vendor decks promise automated submissions. The papers programmers write themselves describe something narrower, and they are missing one thing: numbers.
Compensation · 2026-07-18
Where the salary numbers come from
The salaries page holds three kinds of evidence side by side and refuses to blend them. How to read the figures, and what the public record already shows.
About Open Label · 2026-07-17
The anonymity rules we run on
Exactly how survey datapoints, quotes, and future community accounts are protected, written down before we asked anyone for anything.
About Open Label · 2026-07-17
Why Open Label exists
Tech workers have salary sites, anonymous communities, and worker-side trade press. Clinical research has none of the three. That is the whole founding argument.
Compensation · 2026-07-16
How to benchmark a CRA offer when Glassdoor fails you
Generic salary sites flatten the dimensions that actually move clinical research pay. Here is the checklist that matters.
Careers · 2026-07-15
CRO versus sponsor side: the real math of the move
The most common career question in clinical research, priced out beyond the base salary.
Compensation · 2026-07-14
Per diems: the road money nobody itemizes
For traveling CRAs, per diem structure can quietly move total compensation by thousands a year. Know the variants before you sign.
Compensation · 2026-07-13
Contract or FTE: how to price the difference
Contract rates look bigger. Sometimes they are. A working method for comparing a 1099 rate against a salaried offer.
Industry · 2026-07-12
Why every CRO is always hiring
CRA turnover has run between roughly 22 and 30 percent in recent years. What that number does to studies, sites, and your leverage.
Industry · 2026-07-11
How layoffs become public before the all-hands
US employers above a certain size must file advance notice of mass layoffs. Those WARN filings are public, and almost nobody in this industry reads them.
Field guide · 2026-07-10
What a monitoring visit actually is
For the people adjacent to clinical research, and the people about to join it: the real anatomy of the CRA's defining ritual.
Employer files · 2026-07-09
Employer file: IQVIA
The largest CRO on earth, by the public numbers, and the questions worth asking before you sign there.
Careers · 2026-07-08
Interview questions that reveal the real workload
The offer letter tells you the salary. These questions tell you what the job actually costs.