# Data salary: $153,600–$214,500 a year

Every number below comes from 6,552 tracked live data postings. No surveys, no self-reports. Listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured November 2026 · n=1,771 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median data posting offers $153,600–$214,500 a year (n=1,771, USD).
- 21.6% of the 6,552 live data postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $176,300–$263,000 a year. The median alone hides how wide that spread is.
- Builds AI (AI Level 4) data roles list $184,000–$259,000, vs $135,000–$193,000 at Little AI (AI Level 1).

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 19 | $135,660–$137,002 |
| Junior | 22 | $101,850–$133,100 |
| Mid-level | 420 | $129,200–$178,800 |
| Senior | 878 | $161,250–$220,900 |
| Lead | 303 | $190,000–$261,500 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 463 | $176,600–$238,800 |
| On-site / hybrid | 1,308 | $146,758–$205,075 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Builds AI (AI Level 4) | 537 | $184,000–$259,000 |
| Little AI (AI Level 1) | 860 | $135,000–$193,000 |

## Companies hiring data roles

- [Amazon](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/amazon) (1132)
- [Capital One](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/capital-one) (290)
- [PwC](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/pwc) (164)
- [Sopra Steria](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/sopra-steria) (142)
- [Thales](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/thales) (114)
- [Airbus](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/airbus) (82)
- [RELX](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/relx) (82)
- [Waymo](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/waymo) (75)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 1,771 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page. Below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: data postings at tech companies tracked by Level (6,552 live postings in this category on the measured date). Not the whole labor market. Do not cite as a national average.

All amounts are USD per year. Every median and quartile above excludes hourly-rate postings (a listed maximum under $1,000, almost always an hourly rate, not a salary) and mid-range postings that are neither clearly hourly nor clearly annual (maximum between $1,000 and $10,000). Mixing either into an annual median would understate the real number. The middle 50% of postings top out between $176,300–$263,000 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured November 2026. Small-n slices move a lot. Read the n column first.

## Data salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median data salary?**

Across 1,771 live US postings for data roles with a listed USD salary, measured November 2026, the median offer is $153,600–$214,500 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many data roles jobs are remote?**

21.6% of the 1,771 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured November 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 1,617 postings build AI and 3,678 involve little AI. See the level breakdown below for the median at each level. Measured November 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/data

## Cite this page

Level. https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/data. Measured November 2026.

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