- https://www.salary.com/tools/salary-calculator/medical-research-scientist?type=bonus&view=table shows median $96k (same figure with or without bonus, so something incorrect)
- https://collegegrad.com/careers/medical-scientists shows median $89k (not sure with or without bonus)
- https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Medical_Scientist/Salary shows average $82k base salary. Note PayScale.com always shows lower figures than other sites.
Why the difference? Source data are definitely different, and bonus may/not be counted, but notice median vs average. Average is typically Higher than median for wealth data, because the high outliers have a huge impact on the average. However, in this case the average is lower !
What’s your field observation of their salary? I guess below 100k is indeed much lower than software engineers. I always thought medical research requires high education and very much white-collar. Now I think the education and training requirement is much shorter compared to physicians who manage patients rather than data about humans. Therefore, the supply of qualified researchers is much higher than I assumed.
I think general practitioners make USD 150k typically.
I always believe that we software engineers are fairly well paid in the U.S. context. Your pointer just confirmed my belief.
— CSY confirmed
Many Chinese in the Philadelphia area work as medical researchers. The job sounds good but I know they are not being paid well.
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