What is the salary of a Zoologist?
It depends. Unfortunately nowadays its difficult to get a job as a zoologist with just a Bachelors degree. It’s annoying – because for all intents and purposes a Bachelors + experience should be suitable in terms of getting a job in this field; but so many people with masters and doctorates are changing their jobs after they graduate and going after these types of jobs instead – making it harder and harder for someone with just a generic Zoology or Biology degree to get a job as a Zoologist. Pay is usually commensurate with experience and USUALLY starts out at around $28k US. Sorry, I don’t know the conversion to pounds but obviously it’d be a little more since our dollar sucks right now. The “good” thing about zoological work is there is almost always opportunity for expansion. I.e., Keeper, Lead Keeper, Keeper Management, Zoo Management, Etc.
Yup you certainly need to go to university. I’m in Australia so I’m not sure about how much you’d get paid over there….but I can tell you that over here, to get a ‘good’ job as a zoologist (and not just a laboratory assistant) you’ll need to do a Bachelor’s Degree (around three years). You’ll also need to do a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) which is another 3 years. Depending on how it works over there you may need to do a 1 years Honours course or a 2 year Masters Degree (or both) between the Bachelors and the PhD. So all up you’ll be looking at 6-10 years of study at university. Sounds scary but it’s a really rewarding profession, and you get to research and work with animals really early on (i.e. for me it was in my second year at uni). Plus, you can always take a break from study every now and then and work (either in zoology as an assistant or something or in another job all together). My advice would be, if you’re interested in studying zoology, do a Bachelor of Science at universi
