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| Rank | City | Avg. salary | Hourly rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berkeley, CA | $80,182 | $38.55 |
| 2 | Charlottesville, VA | $64,110 | $30.82 |
| 3 | Socorro, NM | $56,849 | $27.33 |
| 4 | Green Bank, WV | $49,334 | $23.72 |
| Rank | Job title | Average salary | Hourly rate | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Principal Research Scientist | $133,227 | $64 | - |
| 2 | Research Professor | $123,427 | $59 | - |
| 3 | Principle Investigator | $111,837 | $54 | - |
| 4 | Research Associate Professor | $102,289 | $49 | - |
| 5 | Senior Research Investigator | $99,096 | $48 | - |
| 6 | Research Scientist Lead | $92,749 | $45 | - |
| 7 | Staff Research Scientist | $92,736 | $45 | - |
| 8 | Scientist | $92,466 | $44 | - |
| 9 | Research Staff Member | $90,068 | $43 | - |
| 10 | Research Scientist | $89,450 | $43 | - |
| Rank | Company | Average salary | Hourly rate | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SETI Institute | $70,234 | $34 | - |
| 2 | Space Telescope Science Institute | $66,806 | $32 | 7 |
| 3 | Las Cumbres Observatory | $66,248 | $32 | - |
| 4 | Lowell Observatory | $63,657 | $31 | - |
| 5 | W. M. Keck Observatory | $60,741 | $29 | 1 |
| 6 | AURA | $60,110 | $29 | 1 |
| 7 | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station - State Headquarters | $59,609 | $29 | 3 |
| 8 | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $58,786 | $28 | 3 |
| 9 | SRI International | $58,773 | $28 | 10 |
| 10 | Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC | $57,846 | $28 | - |
| 11 | WEST Consultants | $57,728 | $28 | - |
| 12 | Jet Propulsion Labrator | $57,643 | $28 | - |
| 13 | Festo Didactic | $57,575 | $28 | - |
| 14 | Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center | $57,569 | $28 | - |
| 15 | IMEC | $57,547 | $28 | - |
| 16 | IIT Research Institute | $57,487 | $28 | - |
| 17 | Information Systems Laboratories | $57,313 | $28 | - |
| 18 | B612 | $57,237 | $28 | - |
| 19 | RESPEC | $56,393 | $27 | - |
| 20 | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | $48,892 | $24 | 26 |