Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science professionals well compensated
US, Canada, and Australian analytics professionals are paid the most, with US/Canada Industry Data Science Managers earning on average $177K, Industry Data Scientists $126K, Academic Researchers $119K, and Data Analysts $86K.
By Gregory Piatetsky,
@kdnuggets, Mar 3, 2015.
Previous KDnuggets Poll asked:
What is your Annual Salary/Income (in USD), Employer type, and Analytics/Data Science role?
2015 poll got much higher participation than in 2014 and reached a wider population including more junior analytics professionals, which probably explains slightly lower salaries for US data scientists this year.
From 388 respondents this year, 58.8% were from US/Canada, 26.8% from Europe, 7.5% from Asia, 1.8% from AU/NZ, 3.4% from Latin America, and 1.8% from Africa/Middle East.
Note: We estimated the salary using a mid-point for each range, $20K for under $30K bin, and $250K for over $180K bin.
Table 1: Avg. Salary/Income by Employer type
here bar height corresponds to number of people, bar width to salary.
Table 2: Avg. Salary/Income by Analytic Role
bar height corresponds to number of people, bar width to salary.
A regional breakdown shows that Data Science Managers in the US/Canada earn average salary around $177K (11% higher than $165K in 2014). US/Canada Data Scientists earn on average $122K (9% lower than $135K in 2014, probably because more people entered the market). US/Canada Data Analysts earn on average $86K (11% higher than $76K in 2014).
Employer type also plays an important role. Even excluding students, people in the industry earned $108K, about 40% more than $$77.6 for academic/government employees.
Here is a more detailed breakdown by Role and Employer type (students excluded).
Finally, the chart below shows a breakdown by Region, Role, and Employment. East European and Asian salaries are lagging behind the US, Canadian, Australian, and W. European salaries for similar positions.
Here are more details for KDnuggets 2015 Analytics/Data Science Salary
and the results of past polls:
Previous KDnuggets Poll asked:
What is your Annual Salary/Income (in USD), Employer type, and Analytics/Data Science role?
2015 poll got much higher participation than in 2014 and reached a wider population including more junior analytics professionals, which probably explains slightly lower salaries for US data scientists this year.
From 388 respondents this year, 58.8% were from US/Canada, 26.8% from Europe, 7.5% from Asia, 1.8% from AU/NZ, 3.4% from Latin America, and 1.8% from Africa/Middle East.
Note: We estimated the salary using a mid-point for each range, $20K for under $30K bin, and $250K for over $180K bin.
Table 1: Avg. Salary/Income by Employer type
here bar height corresponds to number of people, bar width to salary.
| Employer type | Salary/Income |
| Self (12) |  |
| Company (303) | |
| Government/Non-profit (21) | |
| Academic/University (34) | |
Table 2: Avg. Salary/Income by Analytic Role
bar height corresponds to number of people, bar width to salary.
| Analytic Role | Salary |
| Manage teams which analyze data (60) |  |
| other role (16) | |
| Data Scientist/Data Miner - analyze data yourself (206) | |
| Academic Researcher (23) | |
| Data Analyst/Business Analyst (support data analysis) (62) | |
| Student (21) | |
A regional breakdown shows that Data Science Managers in the US/Canada earn average salary around $177K (11% higher than $165K in 2014). US/Canada Data Scientists earn on average $122K (9% lower than $135K in 2014, probably because more people entered the market). US/Canada Data Analysts earn on average $86K (11% higher than $76K in 2014).
Employer type also plays an important role. Even excluding students, people in the industry earned $108K, about 40% more than $$77.6 for academic/government employees.
Here is a more detailed breakdown by Role and Employer type (students excluded).
Finally, the chart below shows a breakdown by Region, Role, and Employment. East European and Asian salaries are lagging behind the US, Canadian, Australian, and W. European salaries for similar positions.
Here are more details for KDnuggets 2015 Analytics/Data Science Salary
and the results of past polls:
- 2014 KDnuggets Poll: Data Scientists Salary Survey: US, Canada, Australia lead
- 2013 KDnuggets Poll: Salary/Income of Analytics/Data Mining/Data Science professionals
- 2012 KDnuggets Poll: Analytics/Data Mining Annual Salary or Income
- 2011 Analytics/Data Mining Income/Salary by Region
