How much does a Quality Assurance Specialist IV make in the United States? The average Quality Assurance Specialist IV salary in the United States is $125,607 as of February 26, 2024, but the range typically falls between $113,311 and $137,584. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession. With more online, real-time compensation data than any other website, Salary.com helps you determine your exact pay target. 

Quality Assurance Specialist IV Salaries by Percentile
Percentile Salary Location Last Updated
10th Percentile Quality Assurance Specialist IV Salary $102,116 US February 26, 2024
25th Percentile Quality Assurance Specialist IV Salary $113,311 US February 26, 2024
50th Percentile Quality Assurance Specialist IV Salary $125,607 US February 26, 2024
75th Percentile Quality Assurance Specialist IV Salary $137,584 US February 26, 2024
90th Percentile Quality Assurance Specialist IV Salary $148,489 US February 26, 2024
25% $113,311 10% $102,116 90% $148,489 75% $137,584 $125,607 50%(Median) Didn’t find job title? Click
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What skills does a Quality Assurance Specialist IV need?

Each competency has five to ten behavioral assertions that can be observed, each with a corresponding performance level (from one to five) that is required for a particular job.

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Analysis: Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.

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Packaging: Preparing products through wrapping or bottling to protect the goods from damages during transportation and storage.

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Continuous Improvement: A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once. Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility. Some see CIPs as a meta-process for most management systems (such as business process management, quality management, project management, and program management). W. Edwards Deming, a pioneer of the field, saw it as part of the 'system' whereby feedback from the process and customer were evaluated against organisational goals. The fact that it can be called a management process does not mean that it needs to be executed by 'management'; but rather merely that it makes decisions about the implementation of the delivery process and the design of the delivery process itself.

Analysis 4.19%
Packaging 2.07%
Continuous Improvement 1.34%
Others 92.4%

Job Description for Quality Assurance Specialist IV

Quality Assurance Specialist IV implements company and regulatory quality standards for product manufacturing. Knowledgeable of industry and governmental quality regulations. Being a Quality Assurance Specialist IV audits and reviews quality data according to existing procedures. Documents results in required format. Additionally, Quality Assurance Specialist IV requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department. The Quality Assurance Specialist IV work is highly independent. May assume a team lead role for the work group. A specialist on complex technical and business matters. To be a Quality Assurance Specialist IV typically requires 7+ years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)... View full job description

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For Quality Assurance Specialist IV, the upper level is Quality Assurance Specialist V and then progresses to Quality Assurance Manager.

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Quality Assurance Specialist IV salary varies from city to city. Compared with national average salary of Quality Assurance Specialist IV, the highest Quality Assurance Specialist IV salary is in San Francisco, CA, where the Quality Assurance Specialist IV salary is 25.0% above. The lowest Quality Assurance Specialist IV salary is in Miami, FL, where the Quality Assurance Specialist IV salary is 2.9% lower than national average salary.

City, State Compared to national average
City, State San Francisco, CA Compared to national average
+ 25.0%
City, State Washington, DC Compared to national average
+ 11.3%
City, State Miami, FL Compared to national average
-2.9%
City, State Chicago, IL Compared to national average
+ 5.5%
City, State Boston, MA Compared to national average
+ 12.7%
City, State New York, NY Compared to national average
+ 17.5%
City, State Dallas, TX Compared to national average
-0.7%

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