Data Analyst salary
What a data analyst actually earns, from 845 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 data analyst pay in the 5 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
Data analyst is the most searched entry point into data work, and the numbers carry a warning under the appeal. The blended US median is about 97,000 dollars with an OEWS median of 112,590, a healthy band, but unemployment for the category runs 4.9 percent, high for a role sold as future-proof. The reason is supply: bootcamps and degrees have poured entrants into the analyst tier faster than openings, so the entry market is crowded even as senior demand holds. The pay and the security both improve one rung up, where analysts who learn the engineering and modeling stack become data engineers or scientists and leave the crowd behind. If you are early in this field, treat the analyst title as a launch pad, not a destination; the SQL (Structured Query Language) and Python you already use are the down payment on the move.
Open data analyst roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Consultant Data Analyst Marketing - F/H at WundermanthompsonParisTodayApply- Senior Data Analyst at iiDENTIFiiSouth Africa · RemoteTodayApply
Fraud Data Analyst at SezzleChile · RemoteTodayApply
Senior Data Analyst (m/w/d) at shopware AGHomeoffice · Remote1d agoApply
Data Analyst, Revenue Performance at VillageMDUnited States · Remote$73k–$92k1d agoApply
Datenanalyst / Projektleiter 80-100% at medkey AGLuzern, Luzern, Switzerland1d 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$79,725$100,249$133,182
- United Kingdom$50,121$61,396$73,177
- Canada$56,220$61,661$80,868
- Australia$70,196$83,322$97,524
- France$46,719$52,559$58,983
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$158,760
- California$136,800
- New Jersey$130,370
- Virginia$126,070
- New York$125,400
- Maryland$124,340
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a data analyst profile already covers.
- 294 open machine learning engineer roles$172,210 median · +$71,961 · 17% readiness
- 600 open data engineer roles$147,787 median · +$47,538 · 31% readiness
- 600 open business analyst roles$122,331 median · +$22,082 · 37% readiness
- 424 open management consultant roles$121,564 median · +$21,315 · 24% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a data analyst.
Is your offer fair?
Run a specific number through FairElephant, which weighs it against this data, your location, and remote market rates.
Move into or out of data analyst
- data analyst → data engineermeasured route
Related salaries
- Data Scientist salary$152,167 median
- Data Engineer salary$147,787 median
- Financial Analyst salary$112,400 median
Quick answers
How much do data analysts make?
The blended US median is about 97,000 dollars, with the official BLS OEWS median at 112,590 and a typical posted range of 77,000 to 123,000.
Is data analyst a good career in 2026?
The pay is solid, but the entry market is crowded: unemployment for the category is 4.9 percent. The security improves a rung up, at data engineer or data scientist.
What is the next step up from data analyst?
Data engineer or data scientist. Both pay more and have lower unemployment, and both build on the SQL and Python analysts already use.
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 15-2051. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Other mathematical science occupations.” Live corpus 845 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.