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What economists make
Median
$100,000
Lower end
$70,000
Upper end
$149,000
Job Bank's national median is $48.08 an hour, about $100,000 a year full time. The lower and upper ends are Job Bank's low and high wages for everyone in the group, $33.65 and $71.79 an hour. Federal economists are paid on a grid that rises in fixed steps.