Income Percentiles by Occupation and Education Level

Medical Scientists, and Life Scientists, All Other

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Income Percentile Results

Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 33.4th and 44.9th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 138,002 Medical Scientists, and Life Scientists, All Other.

50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $72,393
75th Percentile: $113,813
95th Percentile: $234,900
99th Percentile: $472,007

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Income Percentile Stats

  • To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $472,007 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 $234,900 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.

Income of Medical Scientists, and Life Scientists, All Other by Highest Education Level

Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:
  • Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 34.3th and 43.1th percentiles.
  • Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 31.5th and 39.6th percentiles.
  • Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 35.9th and 46.8th percentiles.
  • Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 28.9th and 48.1th percentiles.
  • Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 42.2th and 55.2th percentiles.

Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level

Highest Level of Education for Medical Scientists, and Life Scientists, All Other:
  • Other (N/A or Less than HS): 0.4%
  • HS Diploma / GED: 0.5%
  • Associates Degree and Some College: 1.5%
  • Bachelors Degree: 20.6%
  • Masters Degree: 24.3%
  • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 9.6%
  • Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 43.2%

Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors

  • For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 31.5th and 52.9th percentiles.
  • For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 19.5th and 40.8th percentiles.
  • For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 27.3th and 42.4th percentiles.
  • For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 23.1th and 48.8th percentiles.
  • For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 41.8th and 54th percentiles.
  • For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 30.8th and 40.2th percentiles.
  • For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 25.1th and 51.6th percentiles.
  • For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 15.9th and 31.4th percentiles.
  • For English Language, Literature, and Composition undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 45.9th and 50.5th percentiles.
  • For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 55.4th and 68.8th percentiles.
Note: The source data only records undergraduate degree majors, even if a person continues to study.

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 138,002 Medical Scientists, and Life Scientists, All Other. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 1650 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