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What oceanographers make
Median
$104,000
Lower end
$64,000
Upper end
$208,000
Job Bank's national median for 2023 to 2024 is $50 an hour, about $104,000 a year at 40 hours a week. The lower end is $30.77 an hour and the upper end is $100 an hour. Read this one carefully: Job Bank counts oceanographers in the same group as geologists and geophysicists, and the very high end of that group comes from oil, gas and mining. Many oceanographers in Canada are federal scientists paid on a government grid.