This is the 14th-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 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 speadsheet. The “average” line does *not* include the zero entries in the calculation.
The Missoula MT and Orlando FL ads offer an hourly salary. The numbers here are annualized. It may be wrong.
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.
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| 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 | $300,000 | $335,000 | 1.06 | $283,019 | $316,038 |
| 5-14-2025 | Deputy Chief Medical Examiner (Forensic Pathologist) | Charleston | WV | $306,000 | $306,000 | 0.89 | $343,820 | $343,820 |
| 9-18-2025 | Medical Examiner/Forensic Pathologist | Las Vegas | NV | $212,035 | $328,660 | 1.2 | $176,696 | $273,883 |
| 10-9-2025 | Forensic Pathologist | Albuquerque | NM | $253,523 | $360,500 | 1 | $253,523 | $360,500 |
| 1-13-2026 | Forensic Pathologist | Mesquite | TX | $275,000 | $350,000 | 1.09 | $252,294 | $321,101 |
| 1-20-2026 | Deputy Medical Examiner - Pathologist | Hauppauge | NY | $208,000 | $208,000 | 1.6 | $130,000 | $130,000 |
| 1-21-2026 | Deputy Medical Examiner | Oxford | MS | $275,000 | $310,000 | 0.9 | $305,556 | $344,444 |
| 1-26-2026 | Medical Examiner | Bellingham | WA | $349,248 | $349,248 | 1.28 | $272,850 | $272,850 |
| 1-29-2026 | Assistant Medical Examiner | Wilmington | DE | $239,555 | $239,555 | 1.13 | $211,996 | $211,996 |
| 2-3-2026 | Medical Examiner | Phoenix | AZ | $240,000 | $306,500 | 1.23 | $195,122 | $249,187 |
| 2-3-2026 | Forensic Pathologist | Grand Forks | ND | $300,000 | $300,000 | 0.93 | $322,581 | $322,581 |
| 2-5-2026 | Forensic Pathologist | Kalamazoo | MI | $240,000 | $263,000 | 0.96 | $250,000 | $273,958 |
| 2-16-2026 | Deputy State Medical Examiner | Clackamas | OR | $305,724 | $337,068 | 1.46 | $209,400 | $230,868 |
| 2-18-2026 | Forensic Pathologist | Denver | CO | $209,000 | $282,000 | 1.39 | $150,360 | $202,878 |
| 2-23-2026 | Associate Medical Examiner (Forensic Pathologist) | Macon | GA | $260,000 | $280,000 | 0.83 | $313,253 | $337,349 |
| 2-23-2026 | Associate Medical Examiner (Forensic Pathologist) | Savannah | GA | $260,000 | $280,000 | 0.98 | $265,306 | $285,714 |
| 2-23-2026 | Associate Medical Examiner (Forensic Pathologist) | Decatur | GA | $260,000 | $280,000 | 1.14 | $228,070 | $245,614 |
| 2-26-2026 | Medical Examiner 1 | Missoula | MT | $284,232 | $291,325 | 1.23 | $231,083 | $236,850 |
| 3-12-2026 | Assistant Chief Medical Examiner | Roanoke | VA | $290,000 | $290,000 | 0.88 | $329,545 | $329,545 |
| 3-16-2026 | Deputy Chief Medical Examiner | Orlando | FL | $208,208 | $352,019 | 1.15 | $181,050 | $306,103 |
| Average | $263,776 | $302,444 | $245,276 | $279,764 | ||||
| 3-9-2026 | Forensic Pathologist | Greenville | NC | 0 | 0 | 0.93 | Not specified | Not specified |