Forensic Pathology Fellow pay range
State of North Carolina · class code 32000598
- Class code
- 32000598
- Pay group
- MH22
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- North Carolina
- The State of North Carolina published pay range for Forensic Pathology Fellow is $95,752 to $157,990 per year.
- North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) keys this classification as class code 32000598.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The OSHR class specification for this class is published by North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR). The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 06/2018.
What the state says the job is
This is specialized professional medical work where approximately 250 autopsy examination under the supervision of senior pathologists are performed. After results from toxicological and histological examinations as well as investigation are returned, a determination as to cause and manner of death is rendered and an autopsy report is completed. The fellow also reviews 900-1000 medical examiner cases from their region of the state, participates in medical examiner, resident, and medical student teaching, testifies in court, and attends scheduled didactic sessions and specialized training in postmortem toxicology, forensic anthropology, crime scene investigation, and criminal laboratory science and methods.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Thorough knowledge of principles, practices, literature, and current developments in the fields of pathological anatomy and forensic pathology. Thorough knowledge theoretical principles of the biological sciences including biochemistry, toxicology, anatomy, physiology, microscopy, and pharmacology. Thorough knowledge of the diversified specialized equipment, instruments, and materials required in all phases of pathology. Thorough knowledge laboratory protocol, procedure, and techniques associated with medicolegal investigative work. Thorough knowledge of legal medicine and ability to make medicolegal interpretations; ability to organize and implement a medical examiner program. Ability to wo ...
Minimum qualifications
Licensed to practice medicine in the state of North Carolina and successfully completed residency in anatomic pathology. <h2
Quoted from the OSHR class specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) publishes this figure in OSHR salary schedules, joined to Class Specifications. Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
Job titles and their salary grades come from the Class Specifications, joined to the salary schedule.