Clinical Research Coordinator Salary Calculator

1. Choose annual salary or hourly rate, then enter your base pay, regular hours and weeks per year.
2. Add your own overtime hours and annual bonus. Enter a second offer and its weekly hours to compare the two per hour.
3. Read your annual gross pay, the pay-period amounts, your effective hourly rate and the gap between the two offers.

What each result tells you:

The first preset is an example, not a typical salary. It shows a coordinator paid $62,000 a year for 40 hours a week. That is $29.81 an hour and $5,166.67 a month before tax. BLS has no wage series for clinical research coordinators, so no percentile is shown.

A clinical research coordinator salary is the gross pay a coordinator of clinical studies earns in a year, before tax. Some coordinators are salaried and some are paid by the hour. This tool handles both and adds overtime and bonus pay.

No official wage figure exists for the job. O*NET, the occupation database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, describes it this way: plan, direct, or coordinate clinical research projects. It files the job under natural sciences managers. BLS reports wages only for that whole group.

O*NET lists these tasks: schedule subjects for study visits, perform protocol procedures such as taking vital signs, assess whether subjects are eligible, prepare study documents, and record adverse event data.

All facts were read on 2026-10-02. The tool is for coordinators and applicants checking an offer. It is not a pay quote from any employer.

The calculator turns your pay into a yearly total and an hourly rate, then compares two offers on an equal footing.

1. Convert. An hourly rate is multiplied by regular hours and weeks. A salary is divided by them to get pay per hour.
2. Add overtime. Overtime hours per week x base rate x multiplier x weeks.
3. Add the bonus. The yearly dollar amount you enter.
4. Rate each offer per hour. A salary is divided by its own weekly hours and the paid weeks.
5. Measure the gap. The second offer minus your base pay, per year and per hour.
6. Find the effective rate. Annual gross pay divided by all paid hours.

No wage table is built into this page. The reason is the official classification. O*NET files clinical research coordinators under natural sciences managers, and BLS publishes wages only for that whole management group.

A coordinator earns $62,000 a year. Her real week is 45 hours, and she gets a $2,000 bonus. A sponsor-side job offers $66,000 for a 40-hour week. These are example figures, not typical pay.

The salary gap is 6.5%. The gap per hour is 19.8%, because the second job asks for five fewer hours a week. Her bonus is not in the base comparison. She should ask whether the new job pays one.

Hours Behind a Salary

A salary is a fixed sum, so longer weeks lower the rate per hour. $62,000 is $29.81 an hour at 40 hours and $26.50 at 45. Enter the hours you really work. The salary to hourly calculator does this conversion alone.

Paid Overtime

Some coordinators are paid by the hour and earn overtime. Three overtime hours a week at $30.00 and 1.5 add $7,020.00 a year. Leave the field blank if your salary covers all hours. The overtime pay calculator works on overtime alone.

Bonus Pay

A bonus raises annual gross pay but not the base rate. The tool adds it to the total and keeps it out of the offer comparison.

Paid Weeks

A contract post that pays 48 weeks pays 7.7% less a year than one that pays 52 at the same rate. Set weeks per year to the weeks you are paid.

Certification, Setting and Trial Phase

The old tool on this page raised pay by fixed percents for a credential, the employer type and the trial phase. No official source publishes such percents. This tool has no field for them.

The only official wage table linked to this job is the one for natural sciences managers, and it is not a fair yardstick. BLS defines that group as people who plan, direct or coordinate activities in the life and physical sciences and in research and development.

Source: BLS OEWS, national estimates, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02. The table covers managers across all the natural sciences. BLS publishes no separate figure for clinical research coordinators.

The table is shown for reference only. The calculator does not place your pay in it. A site coordinator who compared her pay with it would be measuring against senior science managers.

Salary vs Hourly Offers

To compare a salaried offer with an hourly one, convert both to the same basis. Enter the salaried job, read its base hourly rate, then switch the pay type and enter the hourly job.

Comparing a Site Job with a Sponsor Job

Enter your current pay and hours. Type the new base pay as the second offer with its weekly hours. Read the gap per hour, not only the gap per year.

Checking What a Raise Is Worth

Enter your new salary as the second offer with the same hours. The yearly and hourly gaps show the raise in dollars and percent.

Pricing a Part-Time or Contract Post

Set the hours and weeks you will be paid. The annual figure then matches the contract.

Planning a Budget

The result is gross pay. Read the gross vs net income guide before you plan spending from it. The salary calculator converts a single pay figure.

1. Quoting a BLS Wage for Coordinators

There is none. The $167,220 median belongs to natural sciences managers as a whole group.

2. Comparing Salaries Without Hours

A higher salary on longer hours can pay less per hour. Always enter the weekly hours of both jobs.

3. Entering a Bonus as Base Pay

A bonus is not guaranteed pay. Put it in the bonus field so the offer comparison uses base pay only.

4. Adding Overtime to a Salary That Covers All Hours

If extra hours are unpaid, they are not overtime pay. Raise the regular hours instead and watch the hourly rate fall.

5. Trusting a Certification Premium Percent

Neither certifying body states a pay premium on the pages cited here. Treat any fixed percent as a guess.

Every number is exact arithmetic on the figures you type. The tool gives no market benchmark, because no official wage series exists for clinical research coordinators.

For a market check, ask the employer for the pay range of the posted job and compare it with your result here.

No official figure exists. BLS publishes no wage series for clinical research coordinators. This tool converts and compares your own pay figures instead of quoting a national number.

BLS surveys pay by occupation code, and this job has no code of its own. O*NET files it under natural sciences managers, a group BLS reports only as a whole.

No. The group median was $167,220 in May 2025, and its 10th percentile was $79,710. The group covers managers across the natural sciences, so this tool does not rank coordinator pay against it.

Divide the salary by paid hours in the year. A $62,000 salary over 40 hours and 52 weeks is $29.81 an hour. Over 45 hours it is $26.50.

Convert each offer to pay per hour using its own weekly hours. In the example, $66,000 for 40 hours is $31.73 an hour, against $26.50 for $62,000 on 45 hours.

CCRC is the Certified Clinical Research Coordinator credential from ACRP. Applicants need 3,000 hours of verifiable work experience. The exam has 125 multiple choice questions and a 180-minute limit.

CCRP is the Certified Clinical Research Professional credential from SOCRA. Its first eligibility category asks for two years of full-time experience, or 3,500 part-time hours, in the last five years.

No official source gives a figure. The certifying bodies describe eligibility and exams on the pages cited here, not a pay premium. Ask the employer whether its pay scale rewards a credential.

It varies by employer. In the O*NET survey, 60 percent of workers said new hires need a bachelor degree.

No. The calculation runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server. The Save button stores a result only on your own device.

• O*NET OnLine: 11-9121.01 Clinical Research Coordinators (Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. Definition, tasks, education and classification. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 national estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Select 11-9121 Natural Sciences Managers. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS 2018 Standard Occupational Classification definitions (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Defines 11-9121, natural sciences managers. Read 2026-10-02.)
• ACRP: CCRC certification (Association of Clinical Research Professionals. Eligibility and exam format. Read 2026-10-02.)
• SOCRA: CCRP certification exam (Society of Clinical Research Associates. Eligibility categories. Read 2026-10-02.)