The 7 best-paying biopharma companies where workers can take home more than $400,000

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• Workers at biotech and pharma companies can command big paychecks.
• Endpoints News compiled data from hundreds of companies to reveal their median salaries.

The executives, scientists, and other workers at biotech companies have a tough job: coming up with new medical treatments.

But they're paid handsomely for the work, a new analysis from biotech publication Endpoints News shows. Correspondent Andrew Dunn compiled public information from hundreds of biotech and pharma companies to reveal the median salaries they pay their workers.

Endpoints found that the companies with the highest median pay tended to be smaller, and based in biotech hubs like San Francisco, San Diego, or the Boston area.

Head on over to Endpoints to check out the full list, which has info on 175 companies.