Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Clinical Research Associate: $115K median posted pay.
From 43 salary bands employers posted on 222 open clinical research associate roles in science & clinical research. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 147 | $103K | — |
| Senior | 74 | $124K | — |
| Principal | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| ICON | 147 | — |
| Fortrea | 21 | — |
| Thermofisher | 20 | — |
| Pfizer | 7 | — |
| Beigene | 4 | — |
| Syneoshealth | 4 | — |
| Danaher | 2 | — |
| St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital | 2 | — |
| University of Texas at Austin Staff | 2 | — |
| BD | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open clinical research associate roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical Trials | 222 | — |
| Accessibility | 150 | — |
| Investigation | 145 | — |
| Interpreting and Translation | 71 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 56 | — |
| Stakeholder Management | 39 | — |
| PLC Programming | 38 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 36 | — |
| Conversion Optimization | 31 | — |
| Process Documentation | 23 | — |
Where the work is
9% of these roles are remote.
- Remote9%20 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site41%91 roles
- Not stated50%111 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 222 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 43 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Clinical Research Associate (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in science & clinical research, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.