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- What US chemists made in 2022, according to the ACS salary survey
Chemists saw increased salaries overall and a record-low unemployment rate
By andrea widener, october 17, 2022 | a version of this story appeared in volume 100, issue 37.
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Salary Survey 2022
- Salary breakdown by demographics
- Salary breakdown by region
- Who took the survey?
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Across all employment sectors, US chemists fared well in the third year of the pandemic, according to the American Chemical Society’s latest salary survey. Median salaries were up across the board, the survey shows. The survey was sent to 125,048 people affiliated with ACS and was open May 3–31, 2022. The response rate was 8.24%.
Unemployment also hit a record low, a likely response to booming demand for chemistry workers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors . But when salaries were adjusted for inflation, they remained largely flat since 1985, with an extra dip in 2022 likely due to recent high inflation rates.
ACS publishes C&EN, but C&EN remains editorially independent of ACS . C&EN publishes the ACS salary survey because similar data on chemists’ salaries are not available from other sources. C&EN does not play a role in designing the survey questions, conducting the survey, or analyzing the results. C&EN requested specific data from the ACS salary survey team.
Salary and unemployment by demographics
Note: salary data for 2022 are from 5,411 acs members and reflect the median annual salaries of full-time employees who are not students, in emeritus roles, retired, or over age 70. acs considers data calculated from fewer than 50 responses unreliable. c&en included small groups to help make all members visible. unemployment numbers reflect respondents' status as of march 1 in the indicated year. the margin of error for the 2022 overall unemployment rate is ±1.33 percentage points, and in 2021 it was ±1.5. the margin of error for 2020 is not available., in 2022, unemployment among us respondents fell to the lowest rate acs has ever recorded, salaries and unemployment by region, note: data are from 5,109 acs members and reflect the median annual salaries of full-time employees who are not students, in emeritus roles, retired, or over age 70. acs considers data calculated from fewer than 50 responses unreliable. c&en included small groups to help make all members visible. unemployment numbers reflect respondents' status as of march 1., the new england and pacific regions have the highest salaries. in some cases, bachelor's degree recipients made more than those with a master's degree, (number of responses).
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South Atlantic
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New England
Which members took the survey in 2022?
Note: data are from 5,411 acs members who are full-time employees and not students, in emeritus roles, retired, or over age 70., only a small fraction identified as having a disability.
This article was updated on Nov. 1, 2022, to include percentages of 0.2% and below in the graph " More men than women or nonbinary people were faculty at colleges or universities." Limitations of the graphing software prevented the numbers from appearing in the original bars. The missing percentages are 0.2% of nonbinary people for full professor, 0.1% of nonbinary people and 0.1% of people marking “Self-describe” for associate professor, and 0.1% of people marking “Self-describe” for assistant professor.
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ACS’s reintroduced salary survey shows that unemployment is flat and salaries overall are slightly up since 2016. The ACS salary survey returned in 2019 after a 2-year hiatus. Survey responses ...
Median salaries were up across the board, the survey shows. The survey was sent to 125,048 people affiliated with ACS and was open May 3–31, 2022. The response rate was 8.24%. Unemployment also ...