Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Postdoctoral Research Associate: $73K median posted pay.
From 55 salary bands employers posted on 299 open postdoctoral research associate roles in academia & natural science. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 299 | $73K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamus (System Wide External) | 42 | — |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 41 | — |
| Wustl | 41 | — |
| St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital | 37 | — |
| Northeastern | 29 | — |
| Agrilife Research | 28 | — |
| Texas A&M University | 28 | — |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 11 | — |
| Bnl | 10 | — |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | 10 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open postdoctoral research associate roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Data Analysis | 140 | — |
| Investigation | 123 | — |
| Classroom Teaching | 89 | — |
| Python | 73 | — |
| Grant Writing | 73 | — |
| Experimentation | 70 | — |
| Intellectual Property | 58 | — |
| R | 48 | — |
| Machine Learning | 43 | — |
| Benefits Administration | 43 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site99%296 roles
- Not stated1%3 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 299 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 55 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in academia & natural science, 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.