Which pays more, BI Analyst or Data Scientist?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

BI Analyst vs Data Scientist

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 3.0% apart. Demand is comparable on both sides. Data Scientist is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 6.4%. Listings for Data Scientist move faster — median age 42 days against 75.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	BI Analyst	Data Scientist	Gap
Open postings	9,540	11,819	-2,279
Posted this week	401	596
Median salary	$149,000	$153,500	$-4.5k
25th percentile	$118k	$122k
75th percentile	$185k	$191k
Salary disclosed	2.7%	7.6%
Remote share	7.3%	13.7%	-6.4pp
Median age of posting	75d	42d
Open over 60 days	46.5%	40.7%
Visa sponsorship	4.9%	4.2%

Pay

Pay distribution

BI Analyst

$67k$258k

Data Scientist

$69k$266k

Freshness

How old the listings are

BI Analyst

just posted75d median90d+

Data Scientist

just posted42d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

BI Analyst — technologies

SQL

72.0%

Salesforce

65.8%

GCP

59.6%

Docker

53.4%

dbt

47.2%

Terraform

41.0%

Swift

34.8%

Data Scientist — technologies

JavaScript

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

Salesforce

59.6%

Tableau

53.4%

Spark

47.2%

Airflow

41.0%

HubSpot

34.8%

BI Analyst — employers

Tidewater Insurance

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Beacon Robotics

8.0%

Fairmount Legal

7.2%

Northwind Systems

6.5%

Quarry Analytics

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

5.1%

Data Scientist — employers

Cobalt Financial

9.4%

Kestrel Health

8.7%

Beacon Robotics

8.0%

Rivergate Media

7.2%

Pinewood Education

6.5%

Halcyon Energy

5.8%

Ironbark Manufacturing

5.1%

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.

Side by side

Pay distribution

BI Analyst

Data Scientist

How old the listings are

BI Analyst

Data Scientist

What each side asks for

BI Analyst — technologies

Data Scientist — technologies

BI Analyst — employers

Data Scientist — employers

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