Research and Development Salary Survey

The Research and Development Salary Survey reports compensation data for 297 benchmark jobs related to conducting original investigation to gain new knowledge and/or applying findings for the creation of new or improved products or processes. The survey includes research areas such as biological; life sciences; chemistry and chemical engineering; computer science; engineering and technology; marine and oceanography sciences; mathematics; and physical and earth sciences.

Incumbent-based, market-based pay data; submissions screened and normalized to common date — Annual; published in July. Effective data date March 31 of the given survey year. Data collection October–March