Biological Scientists, All Other

At $98,920 against a $50,020 national midpoint, Biological Scientists, All Other pays 98% more than the typical American job — $48,900 a year of difference. Read the entry requirements before the number.

55,850 people are employed in this work. Big enough for a real market in every major metro, small enough that experience in Biological Scientists, All Other is still a distinguishing thing to have.

Life science work suits people who can run a protocol faithfully for months and treat a negative result as information rather than as a wasted season.

No verified preparation time is on file for Biological Scientists, All Other. 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.

$76,800 to $127,670 — 1.7x, or $4,239 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Biological Scientists, All Other is the bottom of it rather than the middle.

The bottom quarter of this field earns $76,800 — $36.92 an hour, $26,780 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Biological Scientists, All Other is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.

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There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 55,850 people employed as Biological Scientists, All Other; 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.

A 1.7x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $98,920 as where you might be after years in Biological Scientists, All Other, and $76,800 as where you would start.

The middle half of this field earns between $76,800 and $127,670. That is $50,870 of range, with $98,920 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $76,800 and $127,670 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $98,920. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $28,750; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $50,870.

The climb from $98,920 to $127,670 is $28,750; the drop to $76,800 is $22,120. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Biological Scientists, All Other and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $47.55 at the midpoint for Biological Scientists, All Other, $36.92 at the 25th percentile and $61.37 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.