I960 CHEMICAL SALARIES

Abstract

Salaries in the chemical profession at the end of 1960 were $1000 to $2000 a year higher than those reported in a 1955 professional and economic survey of the ACS membership (CE for masters, also $9000; for doctors, $11,000. For the chemical field as a whole, the median salary was $10,000. Among the highest paid chemists were those employed in management and administration, the ACS found. Their median annual salaries ranged between $11,000 and $14,000. At the othey end of the scale were chemists employed by educational institutions. Their median salaries ran from $5000 to $8000 a year, depending upon which academic degree they ...