June 2018 - The Epidemiology Monitor

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University of Pennsylvania Survey Results Of Academic Epidemiology Salaries Made Public For The First Time Group To Partner With The Epidemiology Monitor To Expand Scope And Utility Of Future Surveys Some 20 years ago, the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB) and the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (DBEI) at the University of Pennsylvania began an unusual endeavor. These two academic entities set out to conduct a national survey of faculty salaries that would help leaders in their fellow departments of epidemiology and preventive

medicine identify and promote competitive compensation for faculty members. The Association of American Medical Colleges has been conducting a salary survey for many years, but does not track information on epidemiologists since most are in schools of public health. Though individual institutions have published salary ranges for epidemiology positions in their own departments,

-6Canadian Report On Health Inequalities

-8Notes on People

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Bureau of Labor Statistics Report on Epidemiologists Estimates Almost 7,000 Persons In This Job Category The release of new information from the University of Pennsylvania’s survey of salaries for academic epidemiologists triggered a review of the latest employment and wage information about epidemiologists from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The latest report from the BOL on employment and wages for persons in the epidemiologist category in May 2017 estimates that 6,870 persons are employed. June 2018

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It excludes data from self-employed workers but includes data collected from employers in all employment sectors and from all states and the District of Columbia. Mean Annual Wage The mean annual wage across all groups was $76,230 and the median wage was $69,660. The percentile - Labor cont'd on page 5 Volume Thirty Nine

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-10Near Term Epidemiology Event Calendar

-12Marketplace


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