Jobiba Salary Intelligence
Data Scientist salary
Salary range, market position, recent movement, location comparisons and matching live jobs—calculated from comparable Jobiba listings rather than copied salary tables.
Typical market range
$180,370–$254,400
Median $221,380 / year
Based on 181 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 22 Oct 2026
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Where the market sits
$180,370
25th percentile
$221,380
Market median
$254,400
75th percentile
$139,764
Lower market
$180,370
25th percentile
$254,400
75th percentile
$316,550
Upper market
Market movement
Not enough historical evidence yet. Trend is shown only when both 90-day windows have enough comparable observations, preventing noisy “growth” claims from tiny samples.
Location intelligence
Compare Data Scientist pay by market
Currencies are never blended or silently converted
San Francisco
44 samples$224,250
$187,938–$307,500 typical
New York
14 samples$195,800
$155,500–$213,475 typical
San Mateo
13 samples$293,245
$228,420–$293,245 typical
New York City
7 samples$332,500
$217,225–$332,500 typical
- USA
6 samples$179,685
$179,000–$195,093 typical
Toronto
6 samplesCA$118,125
CA$108,000–CA$148,313 typical
United States
5 samples$223,600
$209,000–$223,600 typical
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Live opportunity layer
Data Scientist jobs
Sr Data Scientist, Risk Strategy
San Jose, California, United States
$223.7K – $268.3K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco, CA, United States
$212K – $265K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Senior Data Scientist
San Francisco, CA, United States
$172K – $215K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety
San Francisco, California
$192K – $260K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco, California
$192K – $260K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Data Scientist - Infrastructure
Mountain View, California
$192K – $260K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Senior Data Scientist
Mountain View, California
$123.2K – $218K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Data Scientist, Safeguards
New York City, New York, United States
$285K – $380K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
How Jobiba calculates this
Evidence first, estimate second
- • Uses recent active Jobiba listings that contain employer/source salary data.
- • Requires an explicit salary currency and pay period before a listing can enter an aggregate.
- • Applies broad currency-specific plausibility floors/ceilings, then rejects extreme statistical outliers.
- • Groups title variants through Jobiba's canonical salary-role taxonomy so current estimates and historical trends use the same comparable cohort.
- • Annualizes hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay; no foreign-exchange conversion is used.
- • Uses percentile medians and publishes a range only after the minimum comparable sample is reached.
- • Labels inferred pay on salary pages/jobs as a Jobiba estimate, never as employer-provided compensation.
Based on 181 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 22 Oct 2026
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Frequently asked questions
Data Scientist salary: common questions
What is the average Data Scientist salary in 2026?
The median Data Scientist salary is $221,380 a year, based on 181 salary-listed job postings on Jobiba. The middle half of postings pay between $180,370 and $254,400 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
How much does an entry-level Data Scientist earn compared with experienced hires?
By experience level in the postings Jobiba could classify: Entry level: $137,500 median (11 postings); Mid level: $199,625 median (16 postings); Senior level: $228,950 median (86 postings). Bands with too few postings are not shown.
Which cities pay the most for Data Scientist jobs?
Among cities with enough USD salary data on Jobiba, the highest medians are New York City ($332,500 median, 7 postings), San Mateo ($293,245 median, 13 postings), San Francisco ($224,250 median, 44 postings). Salaries are compared in their listed currency, without conversion.
How does Jobiba calculate Data Scientist salary?
From 181 salary-listed Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.