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.
The average salary for geneticists working in the United States is $82,000 a year according to Payscale, $73,000 a year according to Recruiter.com, $62,041 a year according to Jobstat, and $81,000 a year according to the salary data provided by Indeed.he top annual salary for researchers in the public sectors is $135,000 and the lowest yearly pay recorded is $100,000. Professionals working as clinical geneticists in the private sector earn a median yearly salary of $202,500 and those working as lab directors in the private sector make $167,500 a year.