Statistician salary
What a statistician actually earns, from 151 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.
What the number means
A statistician earns a blended US median near 120,461 dollars, with the typical middle running from 87,440 dollars to 148,553 dollars. The official OEWS median is 103,300 dollars, under the posted figure, because the advertised roles skew senior or well-funded. The official trend has moved up about 13 percent since 2019. By seniority, posted pay runs from roughly 102,552 dollars to 127,975 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 10% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is medical writer, at 46 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open statistician roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Principal Biostatistician/Senior Principal Biostatistician at Precision for MedicineCanada · Remote$149k–$246kTodayApply
Senior Principal Biostatistician at Edwards LifesciencesUnited States · Remote$151k–$215k1d agoApply
Senior Statistician - UK/Europe - Remote at LifelancerUnited States · Remote1d agoApply
Senior Global Access Evidence Leader - HTA Statistician at RocheBasel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland1d agoApply
Statistician Recruitment and Training Analyst at Genius SportsMedellín, Antioquia2d agoApply
Senior Quantitative Analyst at F. Schumacher & Co.Spain · Remote3d agoApply
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 8'730/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 21 Naturwissenschaftler, Mathematiker und Ingenieure: 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 104'760 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- Maryland$128,940
- North Carolina$122,630
- Illinois$116,860
- Indiana$113,030
- Washington$101,890
- Michigan$96,780
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a statistician profile already covers.
- 28 open actuary roles$147,204 median · +$26,743 · 26% readiness
- 62 open economist roles$135,063 median · +$14,602 · 34% readiness
- 37 open ux researcher roles$125,877 median · +$5,416 · 23% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a statistician.
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Quick answers
How much does a statistician make?
The blended US median is about 120,461 dollars, with a typical range from 87,440 dollars to 148,553 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 103,300 dollars.
Is statistician a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 10% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a statistician move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is medical writer, at 46 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
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 15-2041. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Statisticians.” Live corpus 151 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.