NAME Job Spreadsheet – 09/16/2026

This is the 20th-ish posting of my NAME job spreadsheet. To remind folk, I just went to the site and jotted down the salaries of the offerings. This does not include perqs like moving expenses, etc, so you need to look yourself. Some ads just have “up to” salaries (e.g. “Up to $290,000”) but no lower bound. I just put the same number in both. Same thing for “starting at” salaries.

This is only for full time FP ads. Fellowship, Lay Coroner, and Investigator ads are rare and not included. Wilmington DE has a part-time FP job that is not in this list. The full time ad is listed.

For those sites that do not have a posted salary, I put $0. Obviously, that does not mean that the salary is really zero, but it keeps the columns numerical in the Excel spreadsheet. The “average” line does *not* include the zero entries in the calculation.

The Knoxville dollars columns are the posted salaries adjusted to a single cost of living (Knoxville, because I live there). The conversion factors are a bit different than last time. I don’t know if it’s because of the site I use or if Knoxville has gotten that much more expensive (all those New Yorker and Californians moving in have jacked up housing costs). The numbers come from bestplaces.com. It should be noted that there is fair variability among cost of living places. For instance, in bestplaces.com the factor is 1.09. In another place it is 1.03. I stuck with 1.9 for consistency with the other places in terms of source (i.i. bestplaces,com)

As always, caveat emptor. I do not guarantee accuracy. Any Chiefs who see an error, feel free to contact me.

You can click on the little arrows in the labels to sort by a column.

You can use the bar at the bottom to scroll horizontally.

Date of PostingJob TitleCityStateMinimum SalaryMaximum SalaryCOL FactorMin Knoxville DollarsMax Knoxville Dollars
2025-01-08Assistant Medical ExaminerHoustonTX$300,000.00$335,000.001.06$284,211.00$317,368.00
2025-05-14Deputy Chief Medical Examiner (Forensic Pathologist)CharlestonWV$306,000.00$306,000.000.89$345,520.00$345,520.00
2026-03-18Forensic NeuropathologistHoustonTX$315,000.00$315,000.001.06$298,421.00$298,421.00
2026-04-17Forensic Pathologist/Medical ExaminerJohnson CityTN$300,000.00$300,000.000.92$325,532.00$325,532.00
2026-04-27Deputy Chief Medical ExaminerHoustonTX$370,000.00$410,000.001.06$350,526.00$388,421.00
2026-05-15Assistant Medical ExaminerTaylorsvilleUT$236,000.00$349,000.001.27$185,169.00$273,831.00
2026-06-25Medical Examiner I / IIFrankfortKY$245,654.00$257,937.000.89$275,013.00$288,764.00
2026-07-02Medical Examiner I / IIMadisonvilleKY$245,654.00$257,937.000.78$313,644.00$329,327.00
2026-07-02Forensic PathologistCentennialCO$218,570.00$349,882.001.15$189,290.00$303,011.00
2026-07-21Physician Specialist / Medical ExaminerBostonMA$210,821.00$351,796.001.61$130,766.00$218,209.00
2026-07-28Medical ExaminerBellinghamWA$349,248.00$349,248.001.29$271,703.00$271,703.00
2026-07-31Chief Medical ExaminerHagatnaGU$200,000.00$200,000.001.44$138,889.00$138,889.00
2026-08-03Deputy Medical ExaminerFort WorthTX$225,000.00$375,000.001.03$218,447.00$364,078.00
2026-08-10Supervisory Physician (Pathology) GP-14DoverDE$225,020.00$400,000.001.13$198,623.00$353,077.00
2026-08-26Chief Medical Examiner / Forensic PathologistSmyrnaTN$300,000.00$300,000.001.1$273,757.00$273,757.00
2026-08-26Medical Examiner / Forensic PathologistFlorenceAZ$241,931.00$329,664.001.09$222,093.00$302,632.00
2026-09-02Deputy Medical ExaminerOlatheKS$230,000.00$281,520.001.16$198,814.00$243,348.00
2026-09-04Autopsy Pathologist / Asst-Assoc-Full ProfessorSacramentoCA$245,130.00$420,907.001.39$176,217.00$302,578.00
2026-09-04Assistant Medical ExaminerBaltimoreMD$276,881.00$417,129.001.01$274,489.00$413,525.00
2026-09-07Associate Medical ExaminerGainesvilleFL$275,000.00$300,000.001.06$260,258.00$283,918.00
2026-09-08Assistant Medical ExaminerPhiladelphiaPA$282,762.00$302,555.001.14$248,874.00$266,295.00
2026-09-14Forensic PathologistNashvilleTN$275,000.00$325,000.001.14$241,117.00$284,957.00
2026-09-14Forensic PathologistBeaumontTX$275,000.00$325,000.000.94$293,547.00$346,919.00
2026-09-14Forensic PathologistTylerTX$275,000.00$325,000.000.93$296,303.00$350,176.00
2026-09-16Deputy State Medical ExaminerClackamasOR$305,724.00$337,068.001.39$219,777.00$242,309.00
AVERAGE$269,175.80$328,825.721.11$249,239.98$301,062.58
Date of PostingJob TitleCityStateMinimum SalaryMaximum SalaryCOL FactorMin Knoxville DollarsMax Knoxville Dollars
2025-10-09Forensic PathologistAlbuquerqueNM00100
2026-05-19BE/BC Forensic PathologistGreenvilleNC00100
2026-08-12Director of Anatomic PathologyAtlantaGA001.2300

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