2009 Salary Survey of Business,
Industry, and Government
Statisticians
James Dias, Kelly Miller, and Varghese George
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his year, the Biostatistics Consulting and
Survey Center in the Department of
Biostatistics at the Medical College of
Georgia was contracted by the American Statistical
Association to design and implement a survey of the
association’s nonacademic members in the United
States employed by business, industry, or govern-
ment. Members were asked to report their annual
base salary (in dollars) and instructed to not include
bonuses, incentives, or other forms of monetary
reward. Salary was “annualized” for part-time
employed respondents. All salary statistics are
reported as full-time equivalents in dollars per year.
Salary information, in the form of percentiles, is for
a 12-month period and has been rounded to the
nearest $500.
The ASA provided a member database of busi-
ness, industry, and government statisticians that
consisted of 4,921 members, 4,628 of whom had
valid addresses. All members were surveyed from
February to April of 2009. Responses were received
from 2,225 individuals with valid addresses (48.1%).
Of the remainder with valid addresses, 2,403 either
refused or did not respond (51.9%). Based on the
responses received, it was determined that 212
individuals were not eligible to be included in the
final analysis.
Those who were ineligible were either employed
in academia, unemployed, not employed as a stat-
istician, retired, or reported that they did not meet
the questionnaire’s definition of a statistician.
Thirty-eight individuals who were eligible and
responded did not report salary information and
were re-coded as “nonresponders.” When adjusted
than 20 observations were suppressed. Also, all per-
for delivery failure, eligibility, and nonresponse, 1,975
centiles for table rows (categories) with fewer than
(2,225 - 212 - 38) eligible responses were received
10 observations were suppressed.
from an adjusted eligible total of 4,416 (4,628 -
Table 1 reports salary percentiles categorized
212), for an adjusted response rate of 44.7%.
by employer type, geographic region, manage-
In the salary tables that follow, the 10th and 90th
rial responsibility, gender, highest degree, years
percentiles for table rows (categories) with fewer
of experience, and application area or job type.
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