How much do Zoologists and Wildlife environmentalists get paid?
Hi Typically if you are looking to work outside, hands on, within the nature conservation sector you are looking at the following pay bands Assistant or seasonal Warden/Ranger/field worker £9,000-15,000per year (Average is minimum wage) Head Warden/Ranger or land manager £15,000-25,000 per year If your looking at working in management or policy your looking at any where from £18,000 upwards to about £40, 000. Only very experienced and eminent conservation workers/scientists will ever earn more that £40,000 and very rarely leave the office. Ecologist earn on a different salary range starting at about £15-18 for trainee’s and anywhere from £20,000 – £50,000 for Ecologists, Senior Ecologists and specialists working in the private sector. Private sector companies generally pay more as the work on the (I’m hugely generalising here) mantra that money comes before conservation need – this isn’t to say they don’t have the same values as ‘Environmentalists’ it just means they have a business to
