Epidemiologist
Studies how disease moves through populations and advises response. Public health pay against research-level training.
- Pay band (est.)
- $84k–$135k
- Time to competence
- 7 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- desk
- Leverage
- high
- Place constraint
- medium
- Physical demand
- 12/100
- Hours burden
- 55/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play47th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge68th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage86th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand94th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay58th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body88th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy88th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit97th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility73th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill28th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance84th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Political interference; funding swings with the last crisis.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is medium. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 55/100 and people intensity 55/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Epidemiologists (19-1041): median $83,980, 90th percentile $134,860. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +18.7%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.