I don’t have a lot of experience as a forensic scientist, but I have been working in the field for about 5 years now. I have recently been given the title of “Forensic Science Assistant.” The job is pretty rewarding and pays quite well, though I would still say that my main goal is to get out of the house every day and go to work.
I’m not sure what the pay will be, but with my current job, I make a decent salary. I can usually set my work schedule around when my children are at school, but I also have to work every day. I would say that I probably should be working more and more, but that’s just me.
I think you have to work every day to make a living. My last job was a night shift and I made less than minimum wage. I would say that the pay for a forensic science assistant is better, but I would also say that there is less of a market for such a job, and thus the salary goes down.
I don’t believe in making a living at working on a forensic science case. I don’t have the time or ability to work on a forensic science case. I have a criminal lawyer who I work with to try and get the information we need from the scene. I know that I’m not the one that will save those people from a horrible death, but I want to have a good opinion of the people investigating the death, so I can help them later.
The issue is not just that forensic scientists get paid less, but that many of them work less than they do. For example the average forensic scientist gets about $95,000 a year, while a forensic pathologist gets about $120,000 per year. The difference could be huge because it’s hard for forensic scientists to get anywhere near the pay that forensic pathologists are paid.
The salary for a full-time forensic pathologist has been going up since this trend started in the mid-2000s, and that trend is likely to continue. This means that there is less and less people doing crime-scene analysis, and less and less people doing criminal investigations. This is reflected in the number of forensic scientists that do full-time jobs: around 1,200 in 2011 and 2,300 in 2012.
That number is likely to be even higher in the next few years, especially if the trend continues. What’s more, this trend is not limited to crime labs. The number of forensic scientists who do forensic pathology, DNA, and other kinds of crime-scene analysis has also risen substantially since the mid-to-late 2000s. We could also be looking at medical labs that will likely do a lot more DNA work in the next few years.
This is probably a good thing. A lot of people who do forensic science work are people who are doing it because they’re passionate about it, or because they want to make a career out of it. It’s just that they are people who are usually pretty conservative when it comes to their careers. This means that when people do go back to their jobs, they’re probably not going to get much more out of it than they already did before.
I suspect that the vast majority of forensic scientists will have some sort of research or diagnostic job once they are done with their regular forensic/medical research jobs. I don’t know if I would be able to say the same about most of my friends with a computer science degree.
I would be pretty happy if the career path I took had something to do with my degree. But I would also be pretty unhappy if it didn’t.