This is the 11th-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.
This is only for FP ads. Fellowship, Lay Coroner, and Investigator ads are rare and not included.
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 speadsheet. The “average” line does *not* include the zero entries in the calculation.
There are two Canadian offers in Canadian dollars. I don’t know how that plays with cost of living — I just plugged the names into bestplaces and ran with it.
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).
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 Posting | Job Title | City | State | Minimum Salary | Maximum Salary | COL Factor | Min Knoxville Dollars | Max Knoxville Dollars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-8-2025 | Assistant Medical Examiner - Houston, TX | Houston | TX | $300,000 | $335,000 | 1.02 | $293,099 | $327,268 |
| 5-14-2025 | Deputy Chief Medical Examiner (Forensic Pathologist) - Charleston, WV | Charleston | WV | $306,000 | $306,000 | 1 | $306,000 | $306,000 |
| 8-22-2025 | Forensic Pathologist/Medical Examiner - Johnson City, TN | Johnson City | TN | $270,000 | $270,000 | 1 | $270,000 | $270,000 |
| 8-26-2025 | Deputy Medical Examiner - Mount Clemens, MI | Mount Clemens | MI | $294,786 | $294,786 | 1.1 | $267,987 | $267,987 |
| 9-5-2025 | Forensic Pathologist - Taylorsville, UT | Taylorsville | UT | $264,000 | $349,000 | 1.04 | $253,115 | $334,611 |
| 9-8-2025 | Assistant Medical Examiner - Roanoke, VA | Roanoke | VA | $290,000 | $290,000 | 1 | $290,000 | $290,000 |
| 9-18-2025 | Medical Examiner/Forensic Pathologist - Las Vegas, NV | Las Vegas | NV | $212,035 | $328,661 | 1.01 | $209,092 | $324,185 |
| 10-9-2025 | Forensic Pathologist - Albuquerque, NM | Albuquerque | NM | $253,523 | $360,500 | 0.97 | $262,310 | $372,995 |
| 10-16-2025 | Deputy Medical Examiner - Laredo, TX | Laredo | TX | $250,000 | $300,000 | 1 | $250,000 | $300,000 |
| 10-16-2025 | Deputy Medical Examiner I - San Diego, CA | San Diego | CA | $282,796 | $282,796 | 1.24 | $228,061 | $228,061 |
| 10-16-2025 | Deputy Medical Examiner II - San Diego, CA | San Diego | CA | $285,979 | $318,885 | 1.24 | $230,628 | $257,165 |
| 10-16-2025 | Forensic Pathologist/Renseignements sur le poste Pathologiste médico-légal - Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Toronto | Ontario | $358,348 | $390,569 | 1.06 | $338,064 | $368,461 |
| 10-16-2025 | Deputy Medical Examiner - Jackson and Oxford, MS | Jackson | MS | $275,000 | $310,000 | 1 | $275,000 | $310,000 |
| 10-19-2025 | Forensic Pathologist - Grand Forks, ND | Grand Forks | ND | $290,000 | $315,000 | 1 | $290,000 | $315,000 |
| 10-19-2025 | Deputy Medical Examiner - San Antonio, TX | San Antonio | TX | $284,000 | $284,000 | 0.96 | $295,833 | $295,833 |
| 10-20-2025 | Assistant Medical Examiner - Montgomery County, TX | Conroe | TX | $300,000 | $300,000 | 1.02 | $293,099 | $293,099 |
| 10-27-2025 | Medical Director - Los Angeles, CA | Los Angeles | CA | $324,384 | $434,904 | 1.26 | $257,448 | $345,162 |
| 11-4-2025 | State Medical Examiner - Montgomery, AL | Montgomery | AL | $200,000 | $245,000 | 1 | $200,000 | $245,000 |
| 11-4-2025 | Chief Medical Examiner / Forensic Pathologist - Grand Rapids, MI | Grand Rapids | MI | $350,000 | $375,000 | 1 | $350,000 | $375,000 |
| 11-4-2025 | Deputy Medical Examiner/ Forensic Pathologist - Grand Rapids, MI | Grand Rapids | MI | $270,000 | $305,000 | 1 | $270,000 | $305,000 |
| 11-4-2025 | Deputy Medical Examiner - Austin, TX | Austin | TX | $300,000 | $300,000 | 1.01 | $296,736 | $296,736 |
| 11-5-2025 | Forensic Pathologist III/IV - Riverside, CA | Riverside | CA | $223,604 | $351,836 | 1.2 | $186,337 | $293,197 |
| 11-10-2025 | Assistant Medical Examiner - Reno, NV | Reno | NV | $247,770 | $320,653 | 1.15 | $215,417 | $278,791 |
| 11-18-2025 | Forensic Pathologist - Charleston, SC | Charleston | SC | $275,000 | $275,000 | 1.39 | $197,842 | $197,842 |
| 12-3-2025 | Deputy Chief Medical Examiner - Taylorsville, UT | Taylorsville | UT | $264,000 | $394,000 | 1.04 | $253,115 | $377,757 |
| 12-9-2025 | Forensic Pathologist - Sacramento, CA | Sacramento | CA | $450,000 | $475,000 | 1.25 | $360,029 | $380,030 |
| 12-12-2025 | Deputy Chief Medical Examiner - Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Calgary | Alberta | $302,787 | $323,309 | $296,850 | $317,166 | |
| Average | $286,075 | $327,218 | $268,002 | $306,383 | ||||
| 9-8-2025 | Forensic Pathologist Locum Tenens - Johnson City, TN | Johnson City | TN | $0 | $0 | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| 10-20-2025 | Assistant/Associate/Professor of Pathology - Orange Park, FL | Orange Park | FL | $0 | $0 | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| 10-27-2025 | AP board certified Autopsy Pathologist - St. Louis, MO | St. Louis | MO | $0 | $0 | 1.14 | $0 | $0 |
| 11-10-2025 | Forensic Pathologist - Rapid City, SD | Rapid City | SD | $0 | $0 | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| 10-17-2025 | BE/BC Forensic Pathologist - Greenville,NC | Greenville | NC | $0 | $0 | 1 | $0 | $0 |