How Much Do Chemistry Professors Make in 2021 (including Starting Salary)

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Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries

Chemistry Professors

Chemistry Professors teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include providing instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Salary
$94630
Becoming One
Very Hard
Education
Master's degree
Job Satisfaction
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Table of contents
  1. Average salary
  2. Starting salary
  3. Salary rank
  4. Salary range
  5. Highest paying states
  6. Highest paying industries

Average salary

Annual salary
$94630 per year

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary
$47,840 to $60,320 per year

Entry-level Postsecondary Chemistry Teachers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $47,840 to $60,320 per year. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.

Salary rank

Salary rank
A

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Postsecondary Chemistry Teachers to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.

Salary range

Level Hourly Annual
Highest (Top 10%) $* $163,670
Senior (Top 25%) $* $114,270
Middle (Mid 50%) $* $80,400
Junior (Bottom 25%) $* $60,320
No experience (Bottom 10%) $* $47,840

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
CA $* $121,350
RI $* $113,950
NY $* $111,480
UT $* $110,560
MD $* $110,450
MA $* $109,600
NH $* $106,420
NV $* $105,890
DC $* $104,450
OR $* $104,200

* Postsecondary Chemistry Teachers are generally paid on an annual basis not hourly.

Another simple way to increase your salary as a Postsecondary Chemistry Teacher is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like CA doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at CA might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Chemistry Professors are in the states of CA, RI, NY, UT and MD.

Highest paying industries

Salary by industry Annual Hourly
Scientific Research and Development Services $142560 $*
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools $96000 $*
Junior Colleges $88770 $*

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