Business Analyst salary
What a business analyst actually earns, from 718 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
Switch the market above to see business analyst pay in the 4 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
Business analyst pay, a blended US median near 108,000 dollars, sits at a useful crossroads: the seat where analytical skill meets delivery, feeding several higher-paid roles. The title is broad, from reporting-heavy work near the floor to product- and strategy-facing roles well above, so the median hides a real spread by industry. The most valuable thing about the seat is not its pay but its optionality: it is one skills-hop from project manager, product manager, and data analyst, each of which our routes price. Treat it as a hub, not a destination.
Open business analyst roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Growth Product & Business Analyst at AllTrailsUnited States · Remote$85k–$110kTodayApply
Business Analyst -Student Financial Assistance at High Tech GenesisRemote1d agoApply
Business Analyst/Projektkoordinator 20-50% at ITech Consult AGBern, Bern, Switzerland · Remote1d agoApply
Controller*in Senior / Business Analyst*in (m/w/d) in Bonn at Aktion Mensch e.V.Bonn1d agoApply
Data Management, Business Analyst & Consultancy - RDT Data Platforms at RocheKaiseraugst, Aargau, Switzerland1d agoApply
Technical Business Analyst/Delivery Manager at Kryptos Technologies limitedLondon2d agoApply
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$97,151$122,331$150,836
- United Kingdom$61,055$75,040$88,249
- Canada$71,454$83,206$100,842
- France$50,077$54,311$58,399
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'949/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 25 Spezialisten in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 119'388 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- Washington$132,946
- Massachusetts$131,840
- Maryland$128,601
- Virginia$127,252
- District of Columbia$125,500
- Vermont$115,840
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a business analyst profile already covers.
- 600 open project manager roles$126,568 median · +$4,237 · 58% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a business analyst.
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Move into or out of business analyst
- business analyst → project managermeasured route
Related salaries
- Project Manager salary$126,568 median
- Data Analyst salary$100,249 median
- Management Consultant salary$121,564 median
Quick answers
How much do business analysts make?
The blended US median is about 108,000 dollars, with a wide spread by industry and by how technical the role is.
What can a business analyst move into?
Project manager, product manager, and data roles are the common next steps, each a short skills-hop. The route pages price them.
Is business analyst a good career?
Yes, largely for its optionality: it sits one move from several better-paid roles.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 13-1111. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Management analysts.” Live corpus 718 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.