Data Warehousing Specialists Career, Salary and Skills
Data Warehousing Specialists have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $139,500 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 67,140. Wage data is published for 179 locations.
Occupation description
Design, model, or implement corporate data warehousing activities. Program and configure warehouses of database information and provide support to warehouse users.
O*NET code
15-1243.01
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$139,500
Hourly median
$67.07
Employment
67,140
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | 3.88 | 3.88 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.88 | 4.00 |
| Programming | 3.75 | 3.75 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.62 | 3.50 |
| Active Listening | 3.50 | 3.62 |
| Systems Analysis | 3.50 | 3.50 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.38 | 3.62 |
| Speaking | 3.38 | 3.62 |
| Writing | 3.25 | 3.38 |
| Systems Evaluation | 3.25 | 3.50 |
Typical tasks
- Develop data warehouse process models, including sourcing, loading, transformation, and extraction.
- Verify the structure, accuracy, or quality of warehouse data.
- Develop and implement data extraction procedures from other systems, such as administration, billing, or claims.
- Design and implement warehouse database structures.
- Develop or maintain standards, such as organization, structure, or nomenclature, for the design of data warehouse elements, such as data architectures, models, tools, and databases.
- Provide or coordinate troubleshooting support for data warehouses.
- Write new programs or modify existing programs to meet customer requirements, using current programming languages and technologies.
- Map data between source systems, data warehouses, and data marts.
Technology
- Adaptive Metadata Manager
- Adeptia ETL Suite
- Advanced business application programming ABAP
- Altova MapForce
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Simple Storage Service S3
- Amazon Web Services AWS software
- Apache Avro
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Flume
- Apache Hadoop
- Apache HBase
Data Warehousing Specialists salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in TXMedian $151,370 · Employment 8,270
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in CAMedian $170,160 · Employment 6,210
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in New York, NYMedian $131,540 · Employment 5,460
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in VAMedian $160,360 · Employment 5,260
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in Washington, DCMedian $162,870 · Employment 4,740
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $154,770 · Employment 4,320
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in NCMedian $134,630 · Employment 4,070
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in NYMedian $141,350 · Employment 3,850
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in NJMedian $120,790 · Employment 3,090
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in WAMedian $128,760 · Employment 2,990
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in MAMedian $161,650 · Employment 2,690
- Data Warehousing Specialists Salary in GAMedian $139,500 · Employment 2,590
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.