Data Scientist

Complete guide: salary benchmarks, common skills, and career path.

What does a Data Scientist do?

Data scientists extract insights from data using statistics, machine learning, and programming. They design experiments, build predictive models, and communicate findings to drive business decisions.

Avg experience: 5 years

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with verified data. Based on 209 data points.

$138,655

P25

$166,088

Median

$193,917

P75

P25 $138,655 Median $166,088 P75 $193,917

Top Paying Cities

Mountain View, Ca

$221,000 n=14 Menlo Park, Ca

$214,002 n=19 San Francisco

$196,914 n=16 San Jose

$174,304 n=24 Cupertino, Ca

$172,728 n=13 New York

$165,000 n=44 Bellevue, Wa

$163,322 n=17 Austin

$150,500 n=15 Seattle

$136,100 n=13 Chicago

$119,558 n=14

Common Skills

Python SQL Machine Learning Statistics A/B Testing Data Visualization Causal Inference Feature Engineering TensorFlow/PyTorch Experiment Design

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