Salary for Entry-level / Junior Data Scientist in United States during 2025
💰 The median Salary for Entry-level / Junior Data Scientist in United States during 2025 is USD 107,500
✏️ This salary info is based on 176 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average entry-level / junior Data Scientist salary lies between USD 78,000 and USD 141,000 in the United States. 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
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 176
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Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
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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 | 816 jobs Machine Learning | 664 jobs SQL | 536 jobs Statistics | 474 jobs Engineering | 404 jobs Computer Science | 388 jobs R | 366 jobs Mathematics | 313 jobs Research | 252 jobs Data analysis | 235 jobs ML models | 203 jobs Power BI | 189 jobs AWS | 167 jobs Big Data | 163 jobs Tableau | 163 jobs NLP | 160 jobs Scikit-learn | 157 jobs Data visualization | 151 jobs Pipelines | 151 jobs Azure | 150 jobsTop 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 | 494 jobs Health care | 187 jobs Flex hours | 161 jobs Startup environment | 121 jobs Equity / stock options | 105 jobs Team events | 105 jobs Competitive pay | 99 jobs Flex vacation | 81 jobs Salary bonus | 77 jobs Insurance | 75 jobs Medical leave | 50 jobs Parental leave | 46 jobs Wellness | 43 jobs 401(k) matching | 31 jobs Fitness / gym | 24 jobs Transparency | 24 jobs Relocation support | 24 jobs Conferences | 13 jobs Home office stipend | 9 jobs Flexible spending account | 8 jobsRelated salaries
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