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Biological Scientists, All Other · SOC 19-1029

Biological Scientists, All Other Salary in the San Francisco Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area

Figures describe the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not San Francisco city limits.

Median annual wage$138,160
Median hourly wage$66.42

Biological Scientists, All Other in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area earned a median of $138,160 per year ($66.42 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $84,200 at the 10th percentile to $215,860 at the 90th. BLS estimates 4,280 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Biological Scientists, All Other in the San Francisco metro area earn more than $138,160 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $102,300 and $174,140.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$84,200$102,300$138,160$174,140$215,860
Hourly$40.48$49.18$66.42$83.72$103.78

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • San Francisco metro areathis metro area
    $138,160
  • Californiastate (CA)
    $113,530
  • United Statesnational
    $98,920

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +22% vs California overall and +40% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$55,240$82,880$110,520$138,160Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $55,240Tallahassee, FL — $56,660Jefferson City, MO — $59,050Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $61,950Reno, NV — $62,680Gainesville, FL — $63,130Port St. Lucie, FL — $66,860Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $67,160Baton Rouge, LA — $67,570Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $67,860Lexington-Fayette, KY — $68,970Champaign-Urbana, IL — $70,870Alexandria, LA — $71,280Fargo, ND-MN — $71,280Ann Arbor, MI — $71,880Chico, CA — $72,240Lafayette, LA — $73,920San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $73,920Kansas City, MO-KS — $74,810Idaho Falls, ID — $75,160Columbia, MO — $76,400Eugene-Springfield, OR — $76,400Yuma, AZ — $76,400Akron, OH — $76,560Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $77,000Richmond, VA — $77,100Madison, WI — $77,550Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $77,720Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $77,960Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $78,120Knoxville, TN — $78,130St. Louis, MO-IL — $78,330Green Bay, WI — $78,850La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $78,850New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $78,850Tulsa, OK — $78,850Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $79,000Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $79,780Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $79,920Iowa City, IA — $80,100Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $80,500Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $80,540College Station-Bryan, TX — $81,330Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $81,640Fresno, CA — $81,720Columbus, OH — $82,010Missoula, MT — $82,140Syracuse, NY — $82,190Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $82,620Ames, IA — $82,720Oklahoma City, OK — $82,830Huntsville, AL — $82,990Athens-Clarke County, GA — $83,390Bend, OR — $83,410Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $83,780Jacksonville, FL — $83,780Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $84,260Redding, CA — $84,910Pittsburgh, PA — $85,630Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $85,680Flagstaff, AZ — $86,260Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $86,380Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $86,440Charlottesville, VA — $86,800Omaha, NE-IA — $88,070Las Cruces, NM — $88,320Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA — $88,320Boise City, ID — $88,610Ithaca, NY — $88,610Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $88,610Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $88,610Manhattan, KS — $88,610Savannah, GA — $88,610Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $88,710Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $89,340Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $90,020Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $90,370San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $90,640State College, PA — $91,170Duluth, MN-WI — $91,560Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $91,560Albuquerque, NM — $92,160Corvallis, OR — $92,930Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $93,040El Centro, CA — $93,260Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $93,550San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $93,740Asheville, NC — $94,520Billings, MT — $94,520Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $94,520Jackson, MS — $94,520McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $94,520Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $94,810Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $95,220Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $95,600Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $95,780Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $96,100Kennewick-Richland, WA — $96,100Tucson, AZ — $96,300Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $96,380Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $96,430Worcester, MA — $96,550Winston-Salem, NC — $96,850Modesto, CA — $97,120Colorado Springs, CO — $97,140Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $97,160Wilmington, NC — $97,310El Paso, TX — $97,470Mobile, AL — $97,470Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $97,510Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $97,680Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $98,220Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $98,400Urban Honolulu, HI — $98,680Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $98,690Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $98,700Boulder, CO — $98,800Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $98,800Greensboro-High Point, NC — $99,050Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $99,420Birmingham, AL — $99,630Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $100,510Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $101,740Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $101,750Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $102,090Raleigh-Cary, NC — $102,400Stockton-Lodi, CA — $102,650Helena, MT — $103,380Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $103,380Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $104,330Salinas, CA — $104,540Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $104,660Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $105,250Bozeman, MT — $106,330Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $106,670Anchorage, AK — $106,870Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $106,890Rochester, NY — $107,010Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $107,350San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $108,350Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $108,580Barnstable Town, MA — $108,850Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $109,550Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $110,330Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $110,410Vallejo, CA — $110,780Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $111,150New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $111,380Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $111,530New Haven, CT — $112,670Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $114,920Portland-South Portland, ME — $119,430Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $124,840Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $126,960San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $133,790San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $138,160

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The San Francisco metro area has the 1st-highest published median for this occupation among the 156 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in California

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for biological scientists, all other, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • San Francisco metro areathis page
    $138,160
  • San Jose metro area
    $133,790
  • Santa Maria metro area
    $124,840
  • Vallejo metro area
    $110,780
  • Santa Rosa metro area
    $110,330
  • San Diego metro area
    $108,350
  • Salinas metro area
    $104,540

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists$160,180Biological Technicians$95,220Occupational Health and Safety Specialists$126,860Chemists$127,790Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other$77,670Clinical and Counseling Psychologists$166,400

Highest-paying metro areas for biological scientists, all others · Highest-paying occupations in San Francisco Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.