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