Research and Development Salary Survey

United States (with Canadian cuts)Edition: 2026Quote

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

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Survey cycle

Annual

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1Participation opens
October
When employers can submit data
2Effective date
March 31
Data is reported “as of” this date
3Results published
July
When subscribers receive the dataset

Data collection runs October through March; effective date is March 31; published in July of the same survey year.

Positions in this report (297)

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