I make \~160k/year as a PhD synthetic chemist for a major pharmaceutical company. I still stutter very noticeably, and I never imagined how much public speaking I would have to do as a scientist. I gave a talk at a conference earlier in the year, flying to another conference to speak later this month, speaking at town halls with 50+ people, leading meetings with 10-20 people in them, lots of 1:1s with people at various levels in the company, not to mention just lots of socialization at the water cooler or happy hours. It sucks, but my attitude has always been to keep trudging through and not letting my disability hold me back. I think speaking has generally gotten easier, but I still stutter and I still get nervous whenever I have to do this stuff (sweating the night before and feeling demoralized after the talk is over). I try to compensate with having a good, positive, confident attitude, by being good at my job, and having an element of social intelligence at the office. Almost everyone doesn't seem to think it's a big deal, at least to my face anyway. Not sure if this is due to the modern era we are in where diversity and inclusion is celebrated or what. My post-doc adviser gave me a hard time about it but that was an outlier out of all of the interactions over the past 14 years post-college. Do what you want to do and don't let your stutter hold you back! But of course if you want a job that avoids speaking, I can't blame you either! I got into chemistry because I thought I could just do my job and avoid a lot of this stuff, but it's amazing how much speaking and presenting is needed in this kind of area.