Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Quality Control Analyst: $72K median posted pay.
From 12 salary bands employers posted on 25 open quality control analyst roles in science & clinical research. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 3 | — (1 of 8 bands) | — |
| Senior | 2 | — (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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron | 7 | — |
| Lonza | 4 | — |
| Agilent | 3 | — |
| Catalent, Inc | 3 | — |
| Fidelity | 2 | — |
| Galderma | 1 | — |
| KACE Job Openings (TPGCareers) | 1 | — |
| Danaher | 1 | — |
| Dow | 1 | — |
| Galderma (Broadbean External) | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open quality control analyst roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Good Manufacturing Practice | 13 | — |
| Investigation | 10 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 9 | — |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 8 | — |
| Process Documentation | 8 | — |
| Equipment Calibration | 7 | — |
| Union Relations | 7 | — |
| Laboratory Testing | 5 | — |
| Cleanroom Operations | 5 | — |
| Nonconformance Handling | 4 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site64%16 roles
- Not stated36%9 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 25 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 12 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Quality Control Analyst (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.