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Average Pay

Physicists

$166,290/yr
Across the U.S.

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Career Outlook
Physicists

Bright

New job opportunities
are very likely
in the future.

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Typical Training

Physicists

Typical training
at entry is a

Doctoral or professional degree

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      Physicists Tools and Technology Profile

      Tools
      Accelerometers
      • Accelerometers

      Amplifiers
      • Conditioning amplifiers

      Analytical balances
      • Analytical balances

      Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
      • Atomic absorption AA spectrometers

      Autosamplers
      • Headspace autosamplers

      Binocular light compound microscopes
      • Measuring microscopes

      Capacitance meters
      • Capacitance bridges

      Chromatographic detectors
      • Atomic emission detectors AED
      • Photodetectors

      Cryogenic or liquid nitrogen freezers
      • Helium refrigerators

      Cryostats
      • Cryostats

      Desktop computers
      • Desktop computers

      Digital camcorders or video cameras
      • High-speed video cameras

      Electromagnets
      • Laboratory electromagnets

      Electron microscopes
      • Electron microscopes

      Electronic counters
      • Particle counters

      Force or torque sensors
      • Vernier force sensors

      Frequency analyzers
      • Analog frequency analyzers
      • Portable fast Fourier transform FFT analyzers
      • Spectrum analyzers
      • Two-channel fast Fourier transform FFT analyzers

      Frequency calibrator or simulator
      • Two-channel dynamic signal analyzers

      Frequency counters or timer or dividers
      • Photon counting systems

      Galvanometers
      • Galvanostats

      Gas chromatographs
      • Gas chromatography equipment

      Geiger counters
      • Geiger-Muller counters

      Goggles
      • Safety goggles

      High vacuum equipment
      • Diffusion-pumped vacuum systems
      • High vacuum equipment
      • Turbo-pumped vacuum systems

      Infrared spectrometers
      • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers

      Injectors
      • Gas chromatography GC injectors

      Interferometers
      • Interferometers
      • Mickelson interferometers
      • Microwave interferometers

      Ionization chambers
      • Ionization chambers

      Laboratory balances
      • Big G torsion balances

      Laboratory box furnaces
      • Laboratory box furnaces

      Laboratory centrifugal pumps
      • Laboratory centrifugal pumps

      Laboratory safety furnaces
      • Annealing furnaces

      Laboratory vacuum pumps
      • Diffusion pumps

      Laboratory vibrators
      • Vibration exciters

      Laser beam analyzers
      • Laser power meters

      Laser filters
      • Cavity dumpers or drivers

      Lasers
      • Argon ion lasers
      • Diode lasers
      • Helium lasers
      • Multiple diode lasers
      • Pulsed nitrogen lasers
      • Single frequency dye lasers
      • Zeeman split lasers

      Leak testing equipment
      • Leak detection equipment

      Light scattering equipment
      • Light scattering devices

      Magnetometer geophysical instruments
      • Gaussmeters

      Magnetometers
      • Vibrating sample magnetometers

      Mass spectrometers
      • Isotope ratio mass spectrometers
      • Mass spectrometers

      Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes
      • Computed tomography CT scanners

      Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
      • Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems

      Medical radiation films or badges
      • Radiation detecting film badges

      Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators
      • Betatrons
      • Cyclotrons
      • High-energy accelerators
      • Linear accelerators
      • Positive ion accelerators

      Monochromators
      • Double monochromators
      • Grating monochromators
      • Monochromators
      • Scanning monochromators

      Multimeters
      • Digital multimeters

      Network analyzers
      • Two-channel network analyzers

      Notebook computers
      • Laptop computers

      Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
      • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes

      Optical beamsplitters
      • Optical beamsplitting devices

      Optical breadboards
      • Optical tables

      Optical choppers
      • Optical choppers

      Oscilloscopes
      • Digital oscilloscopes

      Personal computers
      • Personal computers

      Photo attachments for microscopes
      • Charge-coupled device CCD cameras

      Photometer
      • Photometer

      Photosensitive diodes
      • High-resolution semiconductor detectors

      Plotter printers
      • Digital plotters

      Pneumatic vacuum equipment
      • Vacuum stations

      Polarizers
      • Programmable phase modulators

      Pull spring balances
      • Spring scales

      Radiation detectors
      • Neutron detectors
      • Scintillation probes
      • Thermoluminescent dosimeters

      Roughness measuring instruments
      • Surface profilometers

      Scanning electron microscopes
      • Scanning electron microscopes SEM

      Scanning probe microscopes
      • Atomic force microscopes
      • Friction-force microscopes
      • Magnetic force microscopes
      • Scanning tunneling microscopes STM

      Semiconductor testers
      • Semiconductor parameter analyzers

      Signal conditioners
      • Power amplifiers

      Signal generators
      • Arbitrary function generators
      • Function generators
      • Optical detectors
      • Radiofrequency RF generators
      • Signal generators

      Single gas monitors
      • Liquid helium level sensors

      Sound measuring apparatus or decibel meter
      • Analog sound level meters
      • Digital sound level meters
      • Pistonphones
      • Sound intensity probes

      Spectrometers
      • Gamma ray spectrometers
      • High-resolution spectrometers
      • Prism spectrometers
      • Visible spectrometers
      • X ray photoemission spectrometers

      Spectrophotometers
      • Spectrophotometers

      Telescopes
      • Telescopes

      Transmission electron microscopes
      • Transmission electron microscopes TEM

      Tube furnaces
      • Laboratory tube furnaces

      Tweezers
      • Optical tweezers

      Ultraviolet UV lamps
      • High intensity UV sources

      Visual filters
      • Pinhole filters

      Voltage or current meters
      • Digital voltmeters DVM
      • Nanovoltmeters

      X ray diffraction equipment
      • X ray crystallography equipment


      Technology
      Analytical or scientific software
      • Aptech Systems GAUSS
      • CERN Physics Analysis Workstation PAW
      • CERN ROOT
      • COMSOL Multiphysics
      • Criss Software XRF11
      • Dose modeling software
      • Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System EPICS
      • GNU Octave
      • Gnuplot
      • Maplesoft Maple
      • OriginLab Origin
      • REDUCE
      • RSI interactive data language IDL software
      • Radiation dose calculation software
      • SciGraphica
      • SciLab
      • Spectral Dynamics STAR
      • Spectroscopy software
      • Statistical software
      • Synergy Software KaleidaGraph
      • Systat Software SigmaPlot
      • The MathWorks MATLAB
      • Vector Fields OPERA-3d
      • Video analysis software
      • Wolfram Research Mathematica

      Cloud-based management software
      • OpenStack

      Clustering software
      • VMware

      Computer aided design CAD software
      • Autodesk AutoCAD
      • Mathsoft Mathcad
      • RibbonSoft QCad

      Configuration management software
      • Puppet

      Data base management system software
      • SQLite

      Data base user interface and query software
      • Amazon Web Services AWS software
      • Database application software
      • Microsoft Access
      • MySQL
      • Oracle Database
      • Structured query language SQL

      Desktop publishing software
      • Scribus

      Development environment software
      • C
      • Canu
      • Eclipse IDE
      • Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
      • Microsoft Azure software
      • Microsoft Visual Basic
      • Microsoft Visual J++
      • Microsoft Visual Studio
      • National Instruments LabVIEW
      • Pascal
      • Software development tools

      Enterprise application integration software
      • Extensible markup language XML

      Enterprise resource planning ERP software
      • Enterprise resource planning ERP system

      Expert system software
      • Ansible software

      File versioning software
      • Git

      Graphics or photo imaging software
      • Adobe Photoshop
      • GNU Image Manipulation Program GIMP
      • Ploticus
      • Xfig
      • xv

      Music or sound editing software
      • Adobe Audition

      Object or component oriented development software
      • C++
      • Oracle Java
      • Perl
      • Python
      • Sun Microsystems Java

      Office suite software
      • Microsoft Office software

      Operating system software
      • Linux
      • Microsoft Windows
      • UNIX

      Presentation software
      • Microsoft PowerPoint

      Spreadsheet software
      • Microsoft Excel

      Video creation and editing software
      • Lenox Softworks VideoPoint

      Web platform development software
      • JavaScript

      Word processing software
      • Microsoft Word