What are typical salaries of chemists?
The salaries of chemists are quite variable depending on their education, number of years experience, employer, and even the area of the country in which they work. The American Chemical Society’s annual salary survey is a good place to start. Unemployment in the chemistry field remains lower than the national average. Over the last ten years, at any given time about 2% of chemists were unemployed while the figures for non-chemists ranged from 4-8 %.
The salaries of chemists are quite variable depending on their education, number of years experience, employer, and even the area of the country in which they work. Median salaries from the ACS 2001 salary survey are summarized below. Unemployment in the chemistry field remains lower than the national average. Over the last ten years, at any given time about 2% of chemists were unemployed while the figures for non-chemists ranged from 4-8 %.
