Biomedical engineering postdoc the a top US university.
Pay: Making NIH recommended salary for postdoc, which is to say less than 1/3 of what my peers who went private sector get paid. Barely enough to get by in a city.
Work/life balance: Absolutely none. My advisor gives me shit about any vacations I take, and goes out of his way to bother me when he knows I have other things going on. He is absentee, until he knows you have something going on and then he suddenly needs all your focus at 11pm on your wifes birthday (seriously, just happened this past weekend). He will blow up your cell phone and start calling labmates if you don't answer asking them to contact you (shitty situation to be put in as a labmate). He went apeshit on a labmate on their wedding day (on a sunday, BTW), insisting that they call him to discuss a paper and send/edit some figures. Basically I work for a monster who is a terrible human being. He's an egomaniac obsessed with exerting his power.
I haven't rage-quit due to sunken costs. I have spent 2 years in this position, and have a lot of papers just waiting to be published. If I quit now, I will have (1) a terrible letter from this very influential individual who would probably go out of his way to ruin my career and (2) a two year postdoc with no publications will kill any faculty application. If I hang on just a little longer, we can part ways amicably (from his perspective) and I will be getting a big payload of good papers.
My boss literally is purposely holding up some of my ground-breaking work so that he can use the methods for other projects in the lab before anyone else gets access to the methods. Basically, risking my career being ruined by scooping, all to enhance his career.
I think my boss is literally satan.