Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, nec
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 72.1th and 80th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 177,702 Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, nec.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $39,34675th Percentile: $58,214
95th Percentile: $111,692
99th Percentile: $179,480
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $179,480 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
- To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $111,692 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, nec by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 34.7th and 43.7th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 57.2th and 68.7th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 59.8th and 70.6th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 80.2th and 86.2th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 71.9th and 79.8th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, nec:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 3.3%
- HS Diploma / GED: 15.3%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 35.9%
- Bachelors Degree: 34.1%
- Masters Degree: 8.1%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.7%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 2.5%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 87.7th and 92.1th percentiles.
- For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 79th and 82.9th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 70.4th and 81.1th percentiles.
- For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 77.8th and 87.5th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 79.1th and 84th percentiles.
- For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 93th and 93th percentiles.
- For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 73th and 82.4th percentiles.
- For Environment and Natural Resources undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 77.7th and 87th percentiles.
- For Agriculture undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 80.8th and 89.5th percentiles.
- For Criminal Justice and Fire Protection undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 56.8th and 68.9th percentiles.
Treemap of Undergraduate Majors
Methodology and Assumptions
This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2013-2017. These results represent 177,702 Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, nec. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 1960 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).
Exclusions and Filters Applied:- Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
- High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
- Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can. The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
- All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
- There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
- Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
- Doctoral Degree: PHd