Salary for Entry-level / Junior Data Scientist during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Entry-level / Junior Data Scientist during 2025 is USD 88,260

✏️ This salary info is based on 156 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average entry-level / junior Data Scientist salary lies between USD 60,000 and USD 135,000 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Data Scientist
Experience
Entry-level / Junior
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
156
Top 10%
$ 176,000
Top 25%
$ 135,000
Median
$ 88,260
Bottom 25%
$ 60,000
Bottom 10%
$ 45,263

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Entry-level / Junior Data Scientist roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with entry-level / junior Data Scientist job listings are Python, Machine Learning and SQL. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Python | 558 jobs Machine Learning | 474 jobs SQL | 364 jobs Statistics | 336 jobs Engineering | 280 jobs Computer Science | 280 jobs R | 265 jobs Mathematics | 228 jobs Research | 168 jobs Data analysis | 152 jobs Power BI | 132 jobs ML models | 132 jobs Tableau | 118 jobs Big Data | 110 jobs AWS | 107 jobs Scikit-learn | 106 jobs Data visualization | 105 jobs TensorFlow | 102 jobs NLP | 101 jobs Testing | 101 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Entry-level / Junior Data Scientist roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with entry-level / junior Data Scientist job listings are Career development, Health care and Flex hours. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 346 jobs Health care | 125 jobs Flex hours | 107 jobs Startup environment | 76 jobs Equity / stock options | 75 jobs Team events | 70 jobs Competitive pay | 64 jobs Flex vacation | 46 jobs Salary bonus | 46 jobs Insurance | 44 jobs Wellness | 31 jobs Medical leave | 31 jobs Parental leave | 25 jobs Transparency | 22 jobs 401(k) matching | 17 jobs Fitness / gym | 17 jobs Relocation support | 15 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 6 jobs Conferences | 5 jobs Fertility benefits | 5 jobs

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Data Scientist @ $ 51,536 (Lithuania) Details
Data Scientist @ $ 82,594 (United Kingdom) Details
Data Scientist @ $ 57,894 (France) Details
Data Scientist @ $ 36,842 (Spain) Details
Data Scientist @ $ 62,105 (Germany) Details
Data Scientist @ $ 109,000 (Canada) - Mid-level / Intermediate Details
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Data Scientist @ $ 140,102 (Canada) - Senior-level / Expert Details
Data Scientist @ $ 109,026 (Australia) Details
Data Scientist @ $ 45,595 (Austria) Details

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