City of San Jose / Environmental Services / Chemist I
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
15 employees hold this title in Environmental Services. Median total compensation for the role is $129,443, below the department median of $143,076.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 15 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, the median wage for Chemists — about 580 people — is $114,890. Environmental Services pays a median base salary of $110,947 for this role, 3% below that figure — about the 46th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Chemists across every employer in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Environmental Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Chemists — about 82,770 people — is $91,240. Environmental Services’s median base salary is 22% above that national figure, about the 64th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 17 of 18 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Environmental Services is $132,127, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 16 jurisdictions. In City of San Jose, the median of $132,127 ranks #2 of 16. See Chemist across all of City of San Jose →
Median total compensation for comparable Chemist roles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Shannon Vanvliet is a Chemist I at Environmental Services. 2025 total compensation came to $143,975.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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At Environmental Services, Maurice Ortiz serves as a Chemist I. Their 2025 pay totaled $140,631.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Paul Ahn is a Chemist I at Environmental Services. 2025 total compensation came to $138,162.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Ismael Talavera is a Chemist I at Environmental Services. 2025 total compensation came to $133,861.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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At Environmental Services, Helio Benites serves as a Chemist I. Their 2025 pay totaled $132,918.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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At Environmental Services, Weng Ao serves as a Chemist I. Their 2025 pay totaled $132,237.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Brenda Lu holds the role of Chemist I at Environmental Services. In 2025, their total compensation was $132,017.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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At Environmental Services, Erin Parrinello serves as a Chemist I. Their 2025 pay totaled $129,443.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Christopher Xieu is a Chemist I at Environmental Services. 2025 total compensation came to $128,093.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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At Environmental Services, Matthew Burigana serves as a Chemist I. Their 2025 pay totaled $117,409.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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At Environmental Services, Jamie Lagman serves as a Chemist I. Their 2025 pay totaled $114,027.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Janice Winn-Shilling holds the role of Chemist I at Environmental Services. In 2025, their total compensation was $79,156.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Arnie Labiano holds the role of Chemist I at Environmental Services. In 2025, their total compensation was $72,502.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Christopher Alvaro holds the role of Chemist I at Environmental Services. In 2025, their total compensation was $57,660.
Chemist I/Environmental Services
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Minh Nguyen works as a Chemist I for Environmental Services. Minh earned $32,230 in 2025.