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Data Scientists Salary in IA

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Data Scientists in IA have a median annual salary of $95,830, with 2,300 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $56,070 at the 10th percentile to $146,700 at the 90th percentile.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22

Salary overview

Median annual salary

$95,830

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$46.07

Employment

2,300

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$56,070
10th
$71,010
25th
$95,830
Median
$127,340
75th
$146,700
90th

Local compared with national

IA

$95,830

Median annual · 2025

United States

$120,230

Median annual · 2025

The IA median is 20.3% below the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $24,400).

Top skills

  1. 1.MathematicsImportance 4.4
  2. 2.Critical ThinkingImportance 4.3
  3. 3.Reading ComprehensionImportance 3.9
  4. 4.Complex Problem SolvingImportance 3.8
  5. 5.ProgrammingImportance 3.8
  6. 6.SpeakingImportance 3.6
  7. 7.Active LearningImportance 3.6
  8. 8.Active ListeningImportance 3.5
  9. 9.WritingImportance 3.5
  10. 10.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 3.4
  11. 11.MonitoringImportance 3.3
  12. 12.Time ManagementImportance 3.0

Career information

Education and experience

Experience
None
Job zone
4

Technology used

  • Alteryx software
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service S3
  • Amazon Web Services AWS SageMaker
  • Amazon Web Services AWS software
  • Apache Airflow
  • Apache Cassandra
  • Apache Hadoop
  • Apache Hive
  • Apache Kafka
  • Apache MXNet
  • Apache Pig
  • Apache Spark
  • Atlassian Confluence

Common tasks

  • Analyze, manipulate, or process large sets of data using statistical software.
  • Create graphs, charts, or other visualizations to convey the results of data analysis using specialized software.
  • Test, validate, and reformulate models to ensure accurate prediction of outcomes of interest.
  • Deliver oral or written presentations of the results of mathematical modeling and data analysis to management or other end users.
  • Recommend data-driven solutions to key stakeholders.
  • Identify business problems or management objectives that can be addressed through data analysis.
  • Compare models using statistical performance metrics, such as loss functions or proportion of explained variance.
  • Clean and manipulate raw data using statistical software.
  • Identify solutions to business problems, such as budgeting, staffing, and marketing decisions, using the results of data analysis.
  • Apply feature selection algorithms to models predicting outcomes of interest, such as sales, attrition, and healthcare use.

Related careers

Occupations recorded as related in the dataset. A relationship does not imply a guaranteed transition.

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