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.
Table of contents
- Average salary
- Starting salary
- Salary rank
- Salary range
- Highest paying states
- Highest paying industries
Average salary
Starting salary
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
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 | $* |