Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Research Technician: $45K median posted pay.
From 106 salary bands employers posted on 142 open research technician 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 | 65 | $45K | — |
| Senior | 12 | $70K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wustl | 34 | — |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 34 | — |
| University of Chicago | 28 | — |
| Osu | 5 | — |
| Ohio State University | 5 | — |
| Tamus (System Wide External) | 4 | — |
| Rice University | 3 | — |
| Agrilife Research | 3 | — |
| Inotiv | 3 | — |
| Texas A&M University | 3 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open research technician roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Childcare | 68 | — |
| Dietetics | 66 | — |
| Data Entry | 63 | — |
| Investigation | 46 | — |
| Data Analysis | 32 | — |
| Statistics | 31 | — |
| Emergency Response | 28 | — |
| Histology | 15 | — |
| Python | 12 | — |
| Help Desk Support | 12 | — |
Where the work is
1% of these roles are remote.
- Remote1%2 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site84%119 roles
- Not stated15%21 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 142 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 106 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Research Technician (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.