What is the average salary for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists?

The average salary for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists is $75K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 1131 public records.

Which cities pay Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists the most?

The highest-paying cities for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists include Cambridge, MA, Bethesda, MD, Stanford, CA.

What skills do Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists need?

Key skills for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

Salary benchmarks based on 1131 public records across 37 cities.

What do Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists do?

Conduct research dealing with the understanding of human diseases and the improvement of human health. Engage in clinical investigation, research and development, or other related activities. Includes physicians, dentists, pharmacologists, and medical pathologists who primarily conduct research. Practitioners who primarily provide medical or dental care or dispense drugs are included in “Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners” (29-1000).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 19-1042)

What our data shows for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

RoleHue publishes 1,131 salary records for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists, across 37 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $69,046 at the 25th percentile to $84,872 at the 75th, a spread of $15,826 around $74,646. 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 $74,646 figure rather than in dollars (21% of it), that spread is tighter than 72% of the roles we cover.

Cambridge, MA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $127,483; Columbus, OH the lowest at $58,734, a gap of $68,749. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $10,743, narrower than the $15,826 band within cities: for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 180 of the 1,131 records we publish for this role (16%). Evidence clears 25 records in 12 of the 37 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 1131 data points.

$69K

P25

$75K

P50

$85K

P75

P25 $69K P50 $75K P75 $85K

Top Paying Cities

Cambridge, MA

$127K n=34 Bethesda, MD

$102K n=17 Stanford, CA

$93K n=11 Irvine, CA

$91K n=10 Washington, DC

$82K n=11 New York, NY

$80K n=180 Los Angeles, CA

$79K n=24 Seattle, WA

$79K n=11 La Jolla, CA

$77K n=12 San Francisco, CA

$77K n=17

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists roles, plus anonymous submissions.

How we calculate benchmarks

Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-07-31. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.