Analytical research chemist vs senior research chemist

The differences between analytical research chemists and senior research chemists can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a senior research chemist has an average salary of $95,520, which is higher than the $81,763 average annual salary of an analytical research chemist.

The top three skills for an analytical research chemist include liquid chromatography, R and HPLC. The most important skills for a senior research chemist are R, chemistry, and product development.

Analytical research chemist vs senior research chemist overview

	Analytical Research Chemist	Senior Research Chemist
Yearly salary	$81,763	$95,520
Hourly rate	$39.31	$45.92
Growth rate	6%	6%
Number of jobs	62,289	55,511
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 72%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	-	-

Analytical research chemist vs senior research chemist salary

Analytical research chemists and senior research chemists have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Analytical Research Chemist	Senior Research Chemist
Average salary	$81,763	$95,520
Salary range	Between $54,000 And $123,000	Between $69,000 And $130,000
Highest paying City	San Francisco, CA	Seattle, WA
Highest paying state	Washington	Washington
Best paying company	Meta	Crunchbase
Best paying industry	-	Pharmaceutical

Differences between analytical research chemist and senior research chemist education

There are a few differences between an analytical research chemist and a senior research chemist in terms of educational background:

	Analytical Research Chemist	Senior Research Chemist
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 72%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Most common major	Chemistry	Chemistry
Most common college	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Analytical research chemist vs senior research chemist demographics

Here are the differences between analytical research chemists' and senior research chemists' demographics:

	Analytical Research Chemist	Senior Research Chemist
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 58.3% Female, 41.7%	Male, 79.1% Female, 20.9%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.4% Unknown, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 9.2% Asian, 22.9% White, 55.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 6.5% Unknown, 4.4% Hispanic or Latino, 8.8% Asian, 27.5% White, 52.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	5%	5%

Differences between analytical research chemist and senior research chemist duties and responsibilities

Analytical research chemist example responsibilities.

Manage an elemental analytical laboratory that include operating, maintaining and troubleshooting an ICP-OES, ICPMS, MXRF, and IC.
Maintain laboratory instrumentation (HPLC).
Gain experience of working in GLP environment.
Perform hands-on HPLC methods, cleaning validations, and finish product testing
Maintain equipment logbooks for laboratory instruments toward compliance of cGMP and GLP.
Develop numerous LC and GC analytical methods for drug product components and formulations.

Senior research chemist example responsibilities.

Manage an analytical laboratory, which include SEM-EDS, GC-MS, GPC, FT-IR, ICP-MS, TGA and DSC equipment.
Conduct HPLC analysis of two main products to support equivalency programs.
Establish the fast HPLC column screening system and serve as super user.
Calculate amounts of unknown components of a distillation bottoms mixture using NMR.
Train over twenty plant operators and scientists to use the FTIR system.
Act as leading analyst to provide analytical services to several GMP API productions.

Analytical research chemist vs senior research chemist skills

Common analytical research chemist skills

Liquid Chromatography, 12%
R, 9%
HPLC, 7%
GC, 5%
Ms, 5%
Analytical Techniques, 4%

Common senior research chemist skills

R, 16%
Chemistry, 14%
Product Development, 8%
Analytical Laboratory, 6%
Organic Synthesis, 4%
Polymer, 4%

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