Anthropologists and Archeologists

Anthropologists and Archeologists pays $70,770 at the midpoint, 41% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.

Employment as Anthropologists and Archeologists is 8,990 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.

Social science suits people who can study human behaviour without needing the answer to be flattering, and who can defend a method to people who dislike the conclusion.

No verified preparation time is on file for Anthropologists and Archeologists. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.

From $59,400 to $89,670 is $2,522 a month, or 1.5x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.

The bottom quarter of Anthropologists and Archeologists earns $59,400 or more — $9,380 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.

Avoid it if you need your field to be treated as settled; much of this work is contested in public.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 8,990 people employed as Anthropologists and Archeologists; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

At 1.5x between $59,400 and $89,670 this is a normally shaped occupation. $70,770 is what the middle of Anthropologists and Archeologists earns after the years it takes to get there, which is not the same as what it offers you now.

The middle half of this field earns between $59,400 and $89,670. That is $30,270 of range, with $70,770 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $59,400 and $89,670 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $70,770. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $18,900; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $30,270.

The distance from the midpoint up to $89,670 is $18,900 — well over the $11,370 down to $59,400. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Anthropologists and Archeologists earns, and half the field is in that upper half.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $34.02 at the midpoint for Anthropologists and Archeologists, $28.55 at the 25th percentile and $43.11 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.