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Social Science Research Assistants

Salary benchmarks based on 48 public records across 4 cities.

What do Social Science Research Assistants do?

Assist social scientists in laboratory, survey, and other social science research. May help prepare findings for publication and assist in laboratory analysis, quality control, or data management. Excludes “Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary” (25-9044).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 19-4061)

What our data shows for Social Science Research Assistants

RoleHue publishes 48 salary records for Social Science Research Assistants, across 4 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $66,260 at the 25th percentile to $82,294 at the 75th, a spread of $16,034 around $75,247. 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 $75,247 figure rather than in dollars (21% of it), that spread is tighter than 71% of the roles we cover.

Burlingame, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $100,000; New York, NY the lowest at $66,789, a gap of $33,211. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $3,211, narrower than the $16,034 band within cities: for Social Science Research Assistants, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 15 of the 48 records we publish for this role (31%). No city here reaches 25 records, the depth we treat as our threshold for calling a city median well evidenced, so every city median on this page rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 48 data points.

$66K

P25

$75K

P50

$82K

P75

P25 $66K P50 $75K P75 $82K

Top Paying Cities

Burlingame, CA
$100K n=10 Ann Arbor, MI
$70K n=10 Washington, DC
$70K n=13 New York, NY
$67K n=15

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Social Science Research Assistants 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.