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What hydrologists make
Experienced
$104,000
Junior hydrologist
$64,000
Senior consultant or registered specialist
$208,000
Job Bank's national median is $50 an hour, about $104,000 a year full time. Job Bank pools hydrologists with geologists and geophysicists, and the very top of that group comes from oil and mining work rather than water science. Treat the middle of the range as realistic and the top as unusual.