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Entry-level Data Analyst Salary in NYC 2026
entry-level data analyst salary nyc — New York State
2025 data
New York State Data Scientists (SOC 15-2051) wages, used as a broad occupational and geographic proxy. These are not NYC metropolitan-area wages. This source does not report entry-level pay separately. Percentiles describe the occupation’s wage distribution and must not be relabeled as experience levels.
Sources: O*NET OnLine — Data Scientists (15-2051), New York, BLS 2025 OEWS (accessed 2026-10-02)
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What changes compensation at this level
- Scope of ownership: reporting support, analysis delivery, stakeholder advisory, or analytics strategy.
- Technical depth across SQL, dashboards, experimentation, statistics, Python, and data quality.
- Industry, company size, remote expectations, bonus structure, and cost of living.
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