City of San Jose / Environmental Services / Microbiologist II
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employees hold this title in Environmental Services. Median total compensation for the role is $200,391, above the department median of $143,076.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, the median wage for Microbiologists — about 190 people — is $123,910. Environmental Services pays a median base salary of $95,502 for this role, 23% below that figure — about the 33rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Microbiologists 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 Microbiologists — about 18,940 people — is $87,990. Environmental Services’s median base salary is 9% above that national figure, about the 55th 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.
Median total compensation for this role at Environmental Services is $107,283, 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 9 jurisdictions. In City of San Jose, the median of $107,283 ranks #1 of 9. See Microbiologist across all of City of San Jose →
Median total compensation for comparable Microbiologist 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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Microbiologist II/Environmental Services
Source-specific fields
Rey Honrada works as a Microbiologist II for Environmental Services. Rey earned $200,391 in 2025.