RONALD E. MCNAIR (PH.D.) NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED) PERSONAL DATA: Born October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina. Died January 28, 1986. He is survived by his wife Cheryl, and two children. He was a 5th degree black belt Karate instructor and a performing jazz saxophonist. He also enjoyed running, boxing, football, playing cards, and cooking.
Pennsylvania tends to pay the highest mean salary, at $102,900 per year, according to the BLS. The second highest is Massachusetts at $93,750 per year. Researchers employed in New Jersey take home an annual mean salary of $91,450. California's annual mean wage for biochemists and biophysicists is approximately $89,120.
Medical laboratory scientists are grouped with the medical and clinical laboratory technologists by the BLS. The bureau reported the medical laboratory scientist salary to be an average of $58,640 per year, with the hourly wage being $28.19 per hour in the US.xperience does pay, as with any other occupation. For a scientist with one to four years of experience, the annual salary ranges from R220,970 to R474,400 per year. Meanwhile, the medical laboratory scientistâs salary for those with five to nine yearsâ experience is R281,875 to R586,088.