How much does an Laboratory animal technician earn
A Laboratory animal technician earns between $1.282 and $4.879 per month, with an average monthly salary of $2.201 and a median salary of $1.856 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.
Our research is based on the salaries of 393 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).
| Monthly Salary | Annual Salary | Salary Per Week | Hourly Salary | |
| Average wage | 2.201 | 26.417 | 550 | 10 |
| 1º Quartile | 1.282 | 15.382 | 320 | 6 |
| Median Salary | 1.856 | 22.270 | 464 | 9 |
| 3º Quartile | 3.721 | 44.647 | 930 | 18 |
| Higher Salary | 4.879 | 58.543 | 1.220 | 23 |
Professional job categories
- Middle level technicians
- middle-level technicians in the biological, biochemical, health sciences
- biology technicians
- biology technicians
Related Positions:
Main workplaces
Biology Technicians work is carried out indoors, during daytime hours, or by shift rotation. The professionals work, mostly, as salaried employees, with a formal contract. They work under occasional supervision, organized in a multidisciplinary team, in research and development centers, universities and in the health area. In some of the activities they carry out, they are exposed to noise, radiation, high temperatures, toxic material and biological and allergenic risks.
What does it take to work in the field of Biology Technicians
The exercise of these occupations requires a technical course in biology (high school level) or similar areas.
Functions and activities of Laboratory animal technician
Biology Technicians must:
Activities
- taking baths;
- sanitize materials and animal husbandry environments;
- identify animals (tattoo, stamps or plates);
- collect animal feces;
- sterilize materials;
- check age of animals;
- request the purchase of materials;
- handling fire extinguishers;
- work as a team;
- show patience;
- collect fluid from animals;
- select matrices;
- transport bagged biological materials;
- submit to health examinations;
- transfer embryos;
- place boxes, cages, drinkers and nozzles in immersion;
- administering medicines to animals;
- work as a team;
- mating animals;
- make decisions;
- operate microscope;
- sowing culture media;
- demonstrate concentration;
- remove nonstandard and excess animals from colonies;
- packing animals and biological materials for transport;
- monitor luminosity;
- collect animal tissues;
- incinerate biological materials;
- operate sanitation equipment;
- weighing animals;
- intubate animals;
- exchange animal microenvironment;
- operate micro manipulator;
- monitor vivarium infrastructure;
- inoculate substances into animals;
- demonstrate concentration;
- bagging organic waste and carcasses;
- weaning animals;
- operate microtomy device;
- freeze carcasses;
- register data;
- demonstrate detail orientation;
- check the age of animals;
- perform serological reactions;
- observe animal behavior;
- monitor ambient temperature;
- check physical appearance of animals;
- monitor ventilation system;
- deal with animals;
- destroy contaminating agents;
- cure animals;
- perform hysterectomy in rats, mice and hamsters;
- bathing animals;
- operate laminar flow;
- store discarded material;
- centrifuge biological materials;
- operate measuring equipment;
- express yourself orally;
- sexing animals;
- feeding animals;
- scraping boxes and cages;
- insert tissue in paraffin;
- respect animal welfare;
- vaccinating yourself against pathogens;
- suturing animals;
- operate sterilization equipment;
- wearing personal protective equipment;
- perform vasectomy in laboratory animals;
- operate insulators;
- applying first aid care;
- sacrifice animals;
- using collective protection equipment;
- immobilize animals (restraint);
- manipulating chemicals;
- monitor humidity;
- making slides;
- adjust equipment temperature;
- control entry and exit of people, equipment and animals;
- send biological material for analysis;
- classify discarded material;
- use specific products for asepsis and disinfection;
- freeze embryos (cryopreservation);
- provide information to users;
- transplant skin;
- monitor environmental pressure;
- provide maintenance services;
Sectors that hire Laboratory animal technician the most in the job market
- supply and management of human resources for third parties
- activities of associations for the defense of social rights
- combined building support services
- cleaning in buildings and households
- combined office and administrative support services
- live animal wholesale
- higher education - undergraduate and postgraduate
- growing apple
- animal artificial insemination service
- engineering services
