Hospitals and doctors' offices pay data scientists below the $120,230 US median
Annual median wage of data scientists, US, May 2025, in healthcare industries where BLS counts at least 500 of them. Wages only, before benefits
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| Category | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Other ambulatory health care services | $121,510 | BLS estimates 650 data scientists in this industry. |
| All industries | $120,230 | BLS estimates 262,440 data scientists across all industries. |
| Medical and diagnostic laboratories | $108,440 | BLS estimates 820 data scientists in this industry. |
| Home health care services | $108,060 | BLS estimates 540 data scientists in this industry. |
| Specialty hospitals (except psychiatric and substance abuse) | $105,100 | BLS estimates 640 data scientists in this industry. |
| General medical and surgical hospitals | $101,520 | BLS estimates 7,050 data scientists in this industry. |
| Offices of physicians | $90,790 | BLS estimates 1,830 data scientists in this industry. |
| Outpatient care centers | $90,750 | BLS estimates 1,410 data scientists in this industry. |
About the data
- Sources
- BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: all industries (opens in a new tab)Data Scientists (15-2051) row: employment and annual median wage
- BLS, May 2025 national estimates by industry (opens in a new tab)The page for each industry in the chart (622100, 622300, 621100, 621400, 621500, 621600, 621900): Data Scientists (15-2051) row
- BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics questions and answers (opens in a new tab)What the wage estimates include, who the survey covers, and the six survey panels behind the May 2025 estimates
- BLS, Handbook of Methods: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Calculation (opens in a new tab)Section "Variance estimation", first sentence
- Method
- The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates employment and wages for data scientists (occupation 15-2051) in each industry from its Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey of employers. The rows are every detailed healthcare industry (four-digit NAICS codes from 621 to 623) where BLS estimates at least 500 data scientists work, plus its figure for all industries. Five smaller healthcare industries in the BLS tables are left out. The wages are wages and salaries only. They leave out the employer's cost of benefits such as health insurance and retirement contributions, and they leave out year-end bonuses, stock bonuses and profit-sharing payments. The survey does not cover the self-employed. The May 2025 estimates combine six survey panels collected from November 2022 to May 2025. The estimates are not equally precise: for the seven healthcare industries, BLS puts the relative standard error of the mean wage between 0.2% for general medical and surgical hospitals and 3.6% for other ambulatory health care services.
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