Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

$103,410 is $4,449 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.

National employment is 172,340. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.

This work suits people patient enough to let an experiment take the time it takes, in a field where the interesting result is usually years behind the interesting question.

We carry no verified training length for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

The quarters sit at $79,840 and $139,380 — 1.7x, or $4,961 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 25th percentile is $79,840, $29,820 above the $50,020 typical American job. When even the floor is this high, the thing to investigate is the entry requirement rather than the pay.

Avoid it if a career built on renewable funding would be too precarious for your circumstances.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 172,340 people employed as Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists; 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 ratio of 1.7x — $79,840 to $139,380 — is wide enough that specialising inside Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists pays measurably. $103,410 is the middle of a range you can move within.

Put in money rather than ratios: $79,840 at the 25th percentile, $103,410 at the midpoint, $139,380 at the 75th. $59,540 separates the quarter of Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists at the bottom from the quarter at the top.

Between $79,840 and $139,380 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $103,410. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $35,970; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $59,540.

The climb from $103,410 to $139,380 is $35,970, against $23,570 down to $79,840. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists is larger than the realistic downside.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $49.71 at the midpoint for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists, $38.38 at the 25th percentile and $67.00 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.