Business Intelligence Analysts Career, Salary and Skills
Business Intelligence Analysts have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $120,230 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 262,440. Wage data is published for 332 locations.
Occupation description
Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.
O*NET code
15-2051.01
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$120,230
Hourly median
$57.80
Employment
262,440
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Active Learning | 3.88 | 4.12 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.88 | 4.25 |
| Speaking | 3.88 | 4.00 |
| Active Listening | 3.88 | 4.00 |
| Writing | 3.75 | 4.00 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.62 | 4.00 |
| Mathematics | 3.50 | 3.88 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.38 | 3.75 |
| Monitoring | 3.12 | 3.25 |
Typical tasks
- Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
- Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
- Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
- Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
- Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.
- Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.
- Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.
- Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
Technology
- Ext JS
- Extensible hypertext markup language XHTML
- Extensible markup language XML
- FileMaker Pro
- Fund accounting software
- Geographic information system GIS software
- Git
- GitHub
- Go
- Google Ads
- Google Analytics
- Google Docs
- Google Looker Analytics
Business Intelligence Analysts salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in CAMedian $141,590 · Employment 39,310
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in TXMedian $122,090 · Employment 25,860
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in NYMedian $130,460 · Employment 23,970
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in New York, NYMedian $135,980 · Employment 23,160
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in PAMedian $106,850 · Employment 13,810
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in NCMedian $119,090 · Employment 11,430
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in ILMedian $106,560 · Employment 10,520
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in San Francisco, CAMedian $170,110 · Employment 10,460
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in FLMedian $115,820 · Employment 10,240
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $127,750 · Employment 10,120
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $129,740 · Employment 9,850
- Business Intelligence Analysts Salary in WAMedian $163,350 · Employment 9,600
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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.