Biological Technicians

What do Biological Technicians do?

Assist biological and medical scientists. Set up, operate, and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, collect data and samples, make observations, and calculate and record results. May analyze organic substances, such as blood, food, and drugs.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 19-4021)

What our data shows for Biological Technicians

RoleHue publishes 89 salary records for Biological Technicians, across 6 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $56,304 at the 25th percentile to $67,578 at the 75th, a spread of $11,274 around $63,073. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $63,073 figure rather than in dollars (18% of it), that spread is tighter than 82% of the roles we cover, so a single record tells you more here than it would for most titles.

La Jolla, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $76,329; Philadelphia, PA the lowest at $45,468, a gap of $30,861. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $14,536, wider than the $11,274 band within cities: for Biological Technicians, which metro a record comes from separates our numbers more than where a record sits within its own metro.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 28 of the 89 records we publish for this role (31%). Evidence clears 25 records in 1 of the 6 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 89 data points.

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