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What hydrologists make
Median
$104,000
Lower end
$64,000
Upper end
$208,000
Job Bank's national median is $50 an hour, about $104,000 a year at 40 hours a week. Job Bank pools hydrologists with geologists, geophysicists and other geoscientists, including those in oil and mining, so these figures are not water science pay alone.