Study Reveals Why Data Scientist Keeps Ranking at the Top of Every Best Jobs List

Study Reveals Why Data Scientist Keeps Ranking at the Top of Every Best Jobs List

Data scientist is at, or near, the top of just about every “best jobs” survey, report, or study released in the past few years. Harvard Business Review named it the sexiest job of the 21st century. And with a median base salary of $96,000, data scientist and some engineering specialties are in a very small group of high-paying jobs that don’t require a medical or law degree. However, you’ll likely need more than a bachelor’s degree, as you’ll find out later in this article. To help demystify the world of data science, GoodCall turned to The Burtch Works Study: Salaries of Data Scientists 2016, which contains comprehensive compensation, education, demographic and industry data on data scientists. And we also spoke with Adam Flugel, a Burtch Works data science recruiter, about…


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