Data Analyst
| Median wage (USD) | 120230 |
|---|---|
| Projected employment growth (%) | 35 |
| AI exposure (%) | 58 |
| Maximum exposure (%) | 94 |
| Source | eloundou |
| What AI changes in this occupation | Periodic report production, dashboard updates and specification write-ups are delegated to AI Data exploration, trend detection and query writing become AI-assisted Framing the business question, arbitrating recommendations and the relationship with decision-makers remain human |
| Key skills | SQL and databases · dashboards and BI · applied statistics · data storytelling |
| Courses to get ahead | Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate · Coursera · 6 mois · 90 · You learn the job hands-on: preparing data, writing queries and building dashboards — the material AI now produces and you have to validate. IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate · Coursera · 4 mois · 88 · Excel, SQL, Python and visualization, plus the reports you hand to managers: this is the central task of the O*NET profile, the one most willingly delegated to AI. Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate · Coursera · 6 mois · 86 · Statistics, modeling and regression: what moves you from producing reports to reading trends and making recommendations, the part that resists. Data Analysis with Python (IBM) · Coursera · 2 sem. · 84 SQL for Data Science (University of California, Davis) · Coursera · 2 sem. · 80 Excel Basics for Data Analysis (IBM) · Coursera · 1 sem. · 78 |
| Occupations to pivot toward | Statistician · 105650 · 11 · 71 Operations Research Analyst · 88940 · 12 · 63 Financial Analyst · 103570 · 7 · 50 |
| Skills to acquire for the pivot | Eloundou's measured exposure is 58% (human β) and rises to 94% (human ζ): periodic report production, dashboard updates, specification write-ups and intelligence-data collection are largely delegable to AI, but framing the business question, synthesizing recommendations and the relationship with decision-makers remain human. BLS growth is +35% from 2025 to 2035 (much faster than average), with about 24,800 openings a year: the group's 275,600 jobs are projected to reach 371,000 (+95,400), as demand for data-driven decisions and the integration of AI into business processes support the occupation more than automation reduces it. The median salary ($120,230, May 2025) is that of the BLS 'Data Scientists' profile (SOC 15-2051); the lowest 10% earn less than $67,240 and the highest 10% more than $199,130. The O*NET match used here is 15-2051.01 Business Intelligence Analysts, because 'data analyst' is not a distinct 2018 SOC occupation and 15-2051.00 is already the site's data-scientist profile — hence its own Eloundou values (β 58 / ζ 94, versus 59 / 94). It is above statisticians ($105,650) and operations research analysts ($88,940), and more than double the median for all occupations ($50,980). |
| GPT-4 exposure — beta / zeta (%) | 70 · 100 |