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Molecular and Cellular Biologists

Salary benchmarks based on 211 public records across 13 cities.

What do Molecular and Cellular Biologists do?

All biological scientists not listed separately.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 19-1029)

What our data shows for Molecular and Cellular Biologists

RoleHue publishes 211 salary records for Molecular and Cellular Biologists, across 13 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $75,803 at the 25th percentile to $93,556 at the 75th, a spread of $17,753 around $82,227. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $82,227 figure rather than in dollars (22% of it), that spread is tighter than 69% of the roles we cover.

South San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $118,691; Ann Arbor, MI the lowest at $65,640, a gap of $53,051. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $19,902, wider than the $17,753 band within cities: for Molecular and Cellular Biologists, which metro a record comes from separates our numbers more than where a record sits within its own metro.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Boston, MA, with 40 of the 211 records we publish for this role (19%). Evidence clears 25 records in 2 of the 13 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 211 data points.

$76K

P25

$82K

P50

$94K

P75

P25 $76K P50 $82K P75 $94K

Top Paying Cities

South San Francisco, CA
$119K n=10 Cambridge, MA
$105K n=25 Palo Alto, CA
$97K n=13 San Francisco, CA
$91K n=12 Stanford, CA
$82K n=12 New York, NY
$81K n=18 Boston, MA
$78K n=40 Tampa, FL
$74K n=10 New Haven, CT
$73K n=10 Los Angeles, CA
$71K n=10

Related Roles

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Molecular and Cellular Biologists roles, plus anonymous submissions.

How we calculate benchmarks

Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-07-31. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.