Earnings Grow, Wage Gap Shrinks

THE BIG PICTURE

Food science salaries got a bump in 2017, climbing 2.2% to a median of $92,000 after remaining flat in 2015, IFT’s biennial Employment and Salary Survey showed.* In 2015, with the compensation climate still tepid in the aftermath of the recession of 2007–2009, the median salary was $90,000, the same as in 2013.

Today’s economic climate is more positive, however, and the job market is strong, recruiters report. “It’s what I would call a candidates&rsquo…