The 2024 PhD Board-Certified Clinical Chemist Compensation Survey
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Board-certified clinical chemists with doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees are essential to laboratory medicine and healthcare, yet comprehensive data on their total compensation is limited. The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) Society for Young Clinical Laboratorians Core Committee conducted its fifth compensation survey in April 2024, providing updated data on salary, benefits, and job satisfaction among board-certified clinical chemists. METHODS: The 2024 compensation survey was distributed to all doctoral-level ADLM members based in the United States and Canada (n = 1576). Confidential, self-reported data were collected from respondents on various demographic and professional characteristics, including academic degree, board certification, years of experience, employment sector, total compensation (defined as base salary plus bonus), geographic location, race/ethnicity, and sex. The study included a total of 291 respondents for analysis. RESULTS: Ninety-two percent (n = 267) of the respondents resided in the United States and 90% held a PhD degree. More than half of the respondents were employed in academic, hospital, or healthcare system settings. Among those with board certification, 86% were certified by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (ABCC). The median total compensation for ABCC board-certified PhD clinical chemists working in the United States (n = 158) was $220 000 to $229 000. CONCLUSIONS: The 2024 survey highlights a continued upward trend in compensation for board-certified PhD clinical chemists, reflecting their expertise and contributions to healthcare. This report serves as a critical resource for professionals to advocate for equitable and competitive compensation as well as benefits that support career advancement and development.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".