Chemical Technician Salaries in Indiana

• In 2010, there was one chemical technician for every 2,000 residents of Indiana, for a total of 1,300 employed technicians. The mean, or average, salary those chemical technicians earned, including those who worked for the perfume industry, was $43,700 a year, or $21.01 per hour, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  
  

Salary Range

• Actual chemical technicians' salaries in Indiana in 2010 ranged from a low of $11.35 an hour and $23,600 a year, to a high of $35.23 an hour and $73,280 a year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The salary that fell in the middle, or the median area, was $18.41 an hour and $38,280 a year.
  
  

Highs

• Salaries of chemical technicians in Indiana were highest in the Evansville area of Indiana and Kentucky, where the average was $62,390 a year in 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Averages were also high in the metropolitan area of Gary, where it was $58,620 a year, and in the Cincinnati-Middletown areas of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, where it was $40,150 a year.
  
  

Lows

• Fort Wayne was the lowest-paying area for chemical technicians in Indiana, where the salary average was $26,300 in 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The north eastern, non-metropolitan area of the state had a salary average of $33,100 for chemical technicians, and the Indianapolis-Carmel areas reported an income average of $34,520 a year.