Quagmire: I suggest you make your questions clear and understandable. As someone else pointed out you do not use adjective like "decent" for stipend payments. It is supposed to be something to cover your living expenses fully or partially and not to make you a millionaire. You should have asked what the average for a field of study X, a state/country Y and general idea of the university, eg., rank #Z is... I would be on crack if I I asked you how much it would cost me to by a 'decent' lunch without specifying what I would like to eat, the type restaurent, location etc? Hope you come out of grad school learning how to ask questions...