I'm not familiar with the current job market, but data scientists being paid worse than developers is surprising to me considering the StackOverflow 2021 survey

I'm not familiar with the current job market, but data scientists being paid worse than developers is surprising to me considering the StackOverflow 2021 survey (in the US): Median Salary | Job Title ------------|---------------- $177,500 | Senior Executive (C-Suite, VP, etc.) $165,000 | Engineering manager $150,000 | Engineer, site reliability $135,000 | DevOps specialist $133,000 | Developer, back-end $130,000 | Product manager $129,250 | Engineer, data $128,000 | Developer, game or graphics $127,500 | Marketing or sales professional $125,000 | Data scientist or machine learning specialist $120,000 | Developer, desktop or enterprise applications $120,000 | Developer, embedded applications or devices $120,000 | Developer, full-stack $120,000 | Developer, mobile $120,000 | Scientist https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#work-salary https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#work-salary