Highest Degree
Years Since 90
th

Highest Degree
Count
1
st

Quartile
Median
3
rd

Quartile Percentile
Master’s 0–2 20 $ 53,400 $ 55,500 $ 57,900 $ 59,300
3–5 22 $ 56,300 $ 59,900 $ 70,800 $ 71,000
6–10 19 $ 65,700 $ 70,500 $ 77,300 $ 84,500
11–15 10 $ 71,400 $ 76,000 $ 81,600 NA
16 or more 7 $101,400 $103,800 $126,800 NA

Missing 5 NA $ 66,400 NA NA
All 83 $ 56,400 $ 65,600 $ 73,700 $ 85,200
PhD All 7 $ 79,600 $ 88,600 $104,800 NA
Unknown All 11 $ 68,700 $ 75,400 $ 87,300 NA
These salaries are lower than the salaries for comparable experience
and no management responsibility in the 2007 SPAIG salary survey
(www.amstat.org/profession/SPAIGsalarysurvey07.pdf, tables 10, 12, and
13). Table 13 of the SPAIG survey is the one that should be most
comparable to this table. While it is not surprising that industry pays
more for biostatisticians than does academia, it is somewhat surprising
that tables 10 and 12 of the SPAIG survey also have higher values than
appear in this table. n
14 AMsTAT NeWs JANUARy 2009
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