Chemists

What do Chemists do?

Conduct qualitative and quantitative chemical analyses or experiments in laboratories for quality or process control or to develop new products or knowledge. Excludes “Biochemists and Biophysicists” (19-1021) and “Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers” (19-2042).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 19-2031)

What our data shows for Chemists

RoleHue publishes 45 salary records for Chemists, across 4 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $73,222 at the 25th percentile to $97,268 at the 75th, a spread of $24,046 around $83,943. 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 $83,943 figure rather than in dollars (29% of it), that spread is mid-pack among the roles we cover.

Cranbury, NJ carries the highest median we hold for the role at $100,000; Piscataway, NJ the lowest at $67,000, a gap of $33,000. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $30,739, wider than the $24,046 band within cities: for Chemists, 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 Houston, TX, with 12 of the 45 records we publish for this role (27%). No city here reaches 25 records, the depth we treat as our threshold for calling a city median well evidenced, so every city median on this page rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 45 data points.

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