Statisticians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Statisticians ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $79,210. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 29,800 people in May 2024, 0.02% of every job BLS counted. Maryland is the largest employer at 3,070 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 28.2% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Maryland, whose location quotient of 5.78 says this work is 5.78 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $60,390 or less, and one in ten earns $170,700 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.8 to 1 and the annual gap is $110,310. The mean ($112,330) versus median ($103,300) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 47 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is New York at $150,240; the jobs leader is Maryland:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Statisticians stands number 483 by employment and number 106 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Computer and Mathematical Occupations, the group median wage is $103,790 across 21 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 0% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.6% of the group's 5,192,870 jobs. In 13 of the 47 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $103,300, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 3,490 jobs, 11.7% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $84,620 a year, against $144,690 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $103,300 works out to $8,608 a month before taxes, $3,973 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,987 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($79,210) to the 75th ($137,610) is worth $58,400 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $113,630 would sit between the median ($103,300) and the 75th percentile ($137,610), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $79,210, is $24,090 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Sibling occupations in Computer and Mathematical Occupations: Database Administrators, Database Architects, Computer and Information Research Scientists, Actuaries, Mathematical Science Occupations, All Other, Mathematicians. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.