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Ask HN: Typical bay area data scientist salary?
Hi,
I recently moved from Europe to SF bay area, and received an offer from a startup in San Francisco to work as a data scientist.
I'm not sure whether the offer they've made me is a good offer for someone of my age and experience.
I'm turning 32 in June, have 2 masters in business and a Phd which I did on data and text mining. I worked 6 years at a university teaching programming classes to business students and working on my PhD. I've analyzed a big data set of a European retailer, wrote many sql queries, shell scripts and custom Perl programs to analyze the data set. Besides my experience at the university, I've worked 1.5 years as a data analyst in a company in Europe. I have broad analytic as well as programming skills.
I also like'd add that I have permission to work in the US.
So, this is what they offer me. Before hiring me full time they would hire me as contracter +/- 100usd per hour (no benefits) for 2 weeks. After these 2 weeks, they want to hire me as an employee and would pay me 115K/year (including benefits).
What do you guys think about this offer?
Any feedback is highly appreciated.
Thanks!
- eitally 14y agoThat seems low to me unless you're getting equity. That would be seriously low for a senior data analyst/scientist at a large corporation NOT in the Bay Area, even. Unless you want to take it for the experience, I think you could do better. p.s. My comment comes from experience as an IT leader at a large Bay Area tech company, not as anyone with startup experience.
- poupette 14y agoThanks for your feedback! What do you think would be a fair offer?