NewsFrom: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro Date: August 6, 2001 Subject: US/Canada Data Miners Income and Status The previous KDnuggets poll US/Canada Data Miners what is their annual income or status. The results are (see www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2001/us_data_miners_income.htm) student 19% unemployed 4% 60 or less 18% 61 or 80 15% 81 to 100 16% 101 to 120 12% over 120 15%The results are not directly comparable to Sep-Oct 2000 salary poll (www.kdnuggets.com/polls/2000/salary.htm), because this poll was limited to US/Canada, and had a separate category for student and unemployed. However, the median Data Miner salary is still about 70,000. This poll focused on the US/Canada data miners not because of any intention to ignore Europe, Asia, and other regions where about 35% of KDnuggets subscribers and many thousands of data miners reside. The main reason is that the current poll mechanism makes it technically difficult to ask more than one question and also because multi-question polls generate much lower response rate. Non-US/Canada income survey will be done later this year. Notice also that many data miners are consultants and do not receive a fixed salary -- that is why the term income is used instead of salary. |
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