Table 2—Annual salaries ($1,000s) of statisticians in Business, Industry, and Government,
Categorized by Years of Experience, Highest Degree, and Managerial Responsibility
Years of Highest
Percentiles
Experience Degree* n 10 25 50 75 90
No Managerial Responsibility
0–5 Master’s 94 54.0 62.0 75.0 84.0 98.0
Doctorate 95 80.0 90.0 98.0 109.0 120.0
6–10 Master’s 84 68.0 78.0 90.0 101.5 120.0
Doctorate 112 87.0 100.0 112.0 125.5 135.0
11–15 Master’s 71 80.0 92.0 104.0 116.0 136.0
Doctorate 80 100.5 111.0 124.5 139.5 157.5
16–25 Master’s 119 80.0 99.0 114.0 130.0 156.0
Doctorate 114 94.0 115.0 130.0 149.0 180.0
26+ Master’s 99 80.0 96.0 113.0 134.0 167.0
Doctorate 181 100.0 117.0 137.0 161.0 210.0
Managerial Responsibility
0–5 Master’s 16 75.0 91.0 128.0
Doctorate 16 89.0 103.5 136.5
6–10 Master’s 37 80.0 87.0 108.0 120.0 135.0
Doctorate 48 91.0 112.5 125.0 145.5 183.0
11–15 Master’s 57 87.0 101.0 125.0 140.0 160.0
Doctorate 67 105.0 129.0 152.0 170.0 202.0
16–25 Master’s 83 97.0 116.0 138.0 165.0 193.0
Doctorate 118 111.0 135.0 162.5 205.0 230.0
26+ Master’s 92 105.0 123.0 139.5 162.5 200.0
Doctorate 182 120.0 145.0 169.5 205.0 275.0
*There were too few respondents with a bachelor’s degree to include in this table.
Salary percentiles—cross-classified by years of employer type and highest degree. Salary percentiles
experience, highest degree, and whether the cross-classified by employer type, application area or
respondent had managerial responsibility—are job type, and highest degree are given in Table 5 for
given in Table 2. Note that there were too few those with a master’s or doctorate degree.
respondents with bachelor’s as their highest degree A final report of the survey is available at www.
to be included in Table 2. Table 3, however, reports svsu.edu/orgs/spaig. In addition to the salary tables
salary percentiles categorized by years of experience presented here, the final report details the survey
for those with a bachelor’s as their highest degree. design, its administration and implementation,
Table 4 reports salary percentiles cross-classified by survey response rates, respondent characteristics,
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