Inaugural ABRF Compensation Survey Report
Please read below for more information about how this report was developed and what is included.
The ABRF Career Development Committee is excited to share the first ABRF Compensation Survey Report to provide unique, valuable benchmarking information for Core facilities. With responses from close to 200 Core facilities across 26 states, representing thousands of Core professionals, this new report represents an important first effort to measure the prevailing compensation within the Core community.
Many ABRF member institutions continue to cope with significant staff recruitment and retention challenges. This report enables members to determine how competitive their salary and benefits programs are within their region and among similar size institutions.
The report includes regional and institution-based compensation information for:
- Core Directors
- Core Managers
- Staff Scientists
- Core Administrators
- Research Staff (Entry/Intermediate/Senior)
- Bioinformaticians
In addition to salary data, the ABRF Compensation Survey Report includes comparative information on:
- incentive compensation
- benefits, including:
- health insurance
- life and disability insurance
- deferred compensation (401k; 403b)
- tuition reimbursement
- staff turnover (2021-2022)
- outlook for hiring
- recruitment/retention challenges
We look forward to building on this inaugural report to provide valuable benchmarking information for ABRF members. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.
Thank you.
ABRF Career Development Committee
Regenia Campbell - East Tennessee State University
Anitha Chennat - University of Michigan
Kym Delventhal - Stowers Institute for Medical Research (Executive Board liaison)
Luellen Fletcher - University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Gerrish - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Co-Chair)
Laura Lewis-Tuffin - Mayo Clinic
Christine O'Connell - Moffitt Cancer Center
Heather (Brewer) Olson – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Shekhar Patil - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Co-Chair)
Jian-Jun 'JJ' Shen - MD Anderson
Sherry Thornton - Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Xinkun 'Sequen' Wang – Northwestern University