Quality assurance chemist vs senior research chemist

The differences between quality assurance 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 $59,242 average annual salary of a quality assurance chemist.

The top three skills for a quality assurance chemist include lab equipment, R and HPLC. The most important skills for a senior research chemist are R, chemistry, and product development.

Quality assurance chemist vs senior research chemist overview

	Quality Assurance Chemist	Senior Research Chemist
Yearly salary	$59,242	$95,520
Hourly rate	$28.48	$45.92
Growth rate	6%	6%
Number of jobs	66,457	55,511
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 83%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	-	-

Quality assurance chemist vs senior research chemist salary

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

	Quality Assurance Chemist	Senior Research Chemist
Average salary	$59,242	$95,520
Salary range	Between $42,000 And $82,000	Between $69,000 And $130,000
Highest paying City	East Windsor, NJ	Seattle, WA
Highest paying state	Virginia	Washington
Best paying company	Clariant	Crunchbase
Best paying industry	Finance	Pharmaceutical

Differences between quality assurance chemist and senior research chemist education

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

	Quality Assurance Chemist	Senior Research Chemist
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 83%	Bachelor's Degree, 58%
Most common major	Chemistry	Chemistry
Most common college	University of Southern California	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Quality assurance chemist vs senior research chemist demographics

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

	Quality Assurance Chemist	Senior Research Chemist
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 60.1% Female, 39.9%	Male, 79.1% Female, 20.9%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.9% Unknown, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino, 9.4% Asian, 18.2% White, 59.6% 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 quality assurance chemist and senior research chemist duties and responsibilities

Quality assurance chemist example responsibilities.

Plan, manage, and maintain laboratory's SPC and TQM programs.
Assist FDA and ISO audits as required.
Operate, programme and troubleshot four HPLC instruments as well as two GC instruments.
Analyze liquid and solid generic pharmaceutical products for quality assurance using HPLC and GC methods.
Operate multi-samplers, high-performance liquid chromatography units and titration units.
Generate in excel and LIMS final reports for clients.

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.

Quality assurance chemist vs senior research chemist skills

Common quality assurance chemist skills

Lab Equipment, 15%
R, 5%
HPLC, 5%
Analytical Methods, 4%
ISO, 4%
Test Results, 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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