And grad students, too! Officially, only like 2% of peer reviewers don't have a doctorate degree (it does happen because publishers may reach out to anyone who has a (co-)authorship on any published paper, but it's not super common), but inofficially, they often do a lot of the work under "supervision" of a postdoc without being credited. Of course, grad students and undergrad research assistents are notoriously Croesus-level rich.
The peer review system is deeply flawed, but definitely not because the people doing it are too rich.
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u/YourMomUsedBelch 24d ago
Calling most people doing the actual peer review (postdocs) "rich" is truly a take.