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What oceanographers make
Government or university scientist
$104,000
Research assistant or technician
$64,000
Senior scientist
$208,000
Job Bank's national median is $50 an hour, about $104,000 a year full time. 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. Most working oceanographers in Canada are federal scientists paid on a government grid, closer to the middle of the range.