The results are in! You can download the raw data in Excel for all 10 years and do some slicing and dicing to find out whether you're underpaid, overpaid, or what it looks like for folks who are out there looking for work. This year, I added a couple of new items to the survey…
Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, benefits, and career progression.
This year, the survey is for unemployed folks, too! The first question has a new option for "Unemployed (and looking)." Note that if you're retired, thanks, but you can skip this survey. Congrats on the retirement though!
In this year's data professional salary survey, I added a new response type for folks who are unemployed and looking for data work. The survey is still in progress, but you can view the data as it's coming in, and I wanted to take a few minutes to read through the responses of folks who are unemployed.
Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, benefits, and career progression.
This year, the survey is for unemployed folks, too! The first question has a new option for "Unemployed (and looking)." Note that if you're retired, thanks, but you can skip this survey. Congrats on the retirement though!
We've been running our annual Data Professional Salary Survey for almost a decade, and I was really curious to see what the results would hold this year. How would inflation and layoffs impact the database world? Download the raw data here and slice & dice it to see what’s important to you. Here's what I found.
Working today? You're not alone. As a small business person, I tend to find myself working on emails, catching up with stuff on quiet days like today.
Let's take a second for your professional development though. Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, benefits, and career progression.
Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, benefits, and career progression.
Take the survey now here.
This is the 8th year now that we've been running our annual Data Professional Salary Survey, and I was really curious to see what the results would hold this year. How would inflation and layoffs impact the database world? Download the raw data here and slice & dice it to see what’s important to you. Here's what I found.
Take the Data Professional Salary Survey now. The survey has closed.
The 2020s have been tough: a pandemic, a recession, layoffs, and inflation. Inflation makes things particularly tricky because your costs for everything have risen a lot in the last year, but at the same time... has your salary? What about your peers? You're in a tough position because it's hard to ask for more money when there are layoffs everywhere. I feel you.
The 2020s have been tough: a pandemic, a recession, layoffs, and inflation. Inflation makes things particularly tricky because your costs for everything have risen a lot in the last year, but at the same time... has your salary? What about your peers? You're in a tough position because it's hard to ask for more money when there are layoffs everywhere. I feel you.
Are your peers being paid more this year? Are they switching job roles? Are they planning on leaving their companies? To find out, I run a salary survey every year for folks in the database industry. Download the raw data here and slice & dice ’em to see what’s important to you.
Salaries are on the rise again this year:
Whew. This is a crazy time, isn't it? The aftermath of the pandemic is kicking in, and there are layoffs happening in Silicon Valley companies, but... the data profession is on fire. I don't know anyone who's been out of work for too long because companies are so desperate to get data help. So it's time…
Every year, I run a salary survey for folks in the database industry. This year, I was especially curious to see the results to find out whether salaries went up. Anecdotally, I've seen a lot of people jumping ship to new companies due to the Great Resignation - but what does the data actually show? Let's find out.
We're data people, you and I. We make better decisions when we work off data instead of feelings.
It's time for our annual salary survey to find out what data professionals make. You fill out the data, we open source the whole thing, and you can analyze the data to spot trends and do a better job of negotiating your own salary:
Every year, I run a Data Professional Salary Survey here. Thousands of y’all have answered – here are the past results in Excel – and it helps everybody get a better idea of how overpaid they are. (Did I word that right?)
Here are the questions I’m planning to ask this year:
We asked what you make, and 1,747 of you in 69 countries answered. Altogether, you made $171,879,034 this year. Hubba hubba, there's some earning power in this audience.
Download the Data Professional Salary Survey results (XLSX).
It's time for our annual salary survey to find out what data professionals make. You fill out the data, we open source the whole thing, and you can analyze the data to spot trends and do a better job of negotiating your own salary:
Take the Data Professional Salary Survey now. - the survey has closed.
We asked what you make, and 1,734 of you in 63 countries answered. Altogether, you made $170,753,936 this year. Damn, y'all are bringing home the bacon!
Download the 2020, 2019, 2018, & 2017 results in Excel.
It's time for our annual salary survey to find out what data professionals make. You fill out the data, we open source the whole thing, and you can analyze the data to spot trends and do a better job of negotiating your own salary:
Take the Data Professional Salary Survey now. The survey is now closed.
Every year, we run a Data Professional Salary Survey here. Thousands of y'all have answered - here are the past results in Excel - and it helps everybody get a better idea of how overpaid they are. (Did I word that right?)
Here are the questions I'm planning to ask this year:
