Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers

$101,920 is $4,325 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.

23,470 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.

Physical science suits people who are content that the instrument, the sample and the funding cycle set the pace, and who find the method satisfying independent of the finding.

We carry no verified training length for Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

The quarters sit at $75,110 and $139,380 — 1.9x, or $5,355 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.

The bottom quarter of this field earns $75,110 — $36.11 an hour, $25,090 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.

Avoid it if your household cannot absorb the geography — the instruments and the posts are in a small number of places.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 23,470 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.

From $75,110 to $139,380 at a ratio of 1.9x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $101,920 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.

The middle half of this field earns between $75,110 and $139,380. That is $64,270 of range, with $101,920 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $139,380. Reaching it from the $101,920 midpoint is $37,460 a year; reaching it from the $75,110 that the bottom quarter of Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers earn is $64,270.

The climb from $101,920 to $139,380 is $37,460, against $26,810 down to $75,110. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers is larger than the realistic downside.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $49.00 at the midpoint for Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers, $36.11 at the 25th percentile and $67.00 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.