How Much Do Coroners Make in 2021 (including Starting Salary)

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

Coroners

Coroners direct activities such as autopsies, pathological and toxicological analyses, and inquests relating to the investigation of deaths occurring within a legal jurisdiction to determine cause of death or to fix responsibility for accidental, violent, or unexplained deaths.

Salary
$75620
Becoming One
Medium
Education
No degree required
Job Satisfaction
Job Growth

Personality



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
$75620 per year
Hourly wage
$36 per hour

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary
$40,160 to $52,670 per year
Entry-level hourly wage
$19 to $25 per hour

Entry-level Coroners with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $40,160 to $52,670 per year or $19 to $25 per hour. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.

Salary rank

Salary rank
B

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Coroners 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%) $55 $115,220
Senior (Top 25%) $46 $95,330
Middle (Mid 50%) $34 $71,100
Junior (Bottom 25%) $25 $52,670
No experience (Bottom 10%) $19 $40,160

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
DC $46 $96,700
NJ $43 $89,130
MA $41 $86,270
CT $41 $85,830
CA $41 $84,600
MN $41 $84,510
AK $40 $84,000
DE $40 $82,930
NY $39 $81,790
RI $39 $81,380

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

According to BLS, the highest paid Coroners are in the states of DC, NJ, MA, CT and CA.

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