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Salary Guides for Biotech Roles

PharmaPayWatch now provides salary guides for key biotech roles including Bioinformatics, Medical Science Liaisons, and Data Science. Each guide uses recent job posting data to show median pay by experience, top employers, and hiring trends across the industry.

Nicholas George
Hiring trend for MSL and overall hiring trends.
Hiring trend for MSL and overall hiring trends.

PharmaPayWatch now has salary guides for major biotech roles. These answer the most common question I get: “what’s the market rate for role X?”

Each guide shows current market rates based on real job postings from the past 6 months, including:

  • Median salaries by experience level
  • Top hiring and top paying companies
  • 12-month hiring trends
  • Management vs IC compensation breakdown

For example, here’s how Medical Science Liaison hiring has changed over the past year:

Hiring trend for MSL and overall hiring trends.

And here’s what Data Science salaries look like by experience level:

Data science salary distribution by job level

I update these guides quarterly with 6 months of rolling data. If you’re job searching, negotiating an offer, or benchmarking compensation for your team, you now have real numbers to work with.

Three guides are live now:

I’m updating links throughout the site, but any time I mention a role that I have a guide for, you’ll see a 💰 link like this .

PharmaPayWatch is built to make compensation data transparent and actionable for everyone in biotech, whether you’re hiring, negotiating, or analyzing the market. If there’s a role you’d like me to cover next, or if you’d like access to the underlying data, send me an email!

More coming soon, thanks for reading!

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