No Age Discrimination in Data Science
On 7 Sep, 2016 By michaelmalak 0 Comments
The free 2016 O'Reilly Data Science Salary Survey has been released. This year, they applied a handy linear regression and spelled out the entire model on page 42. A couple of things jumped out at me. In terms of $1,000s of dollars:
-7.8 | gender = Female |
+17.2 | Age: 26 to 30 |
+22.5 | Age: 31 to 35 |
+24.8 | Age: 36 to 65 |
+38.5 | Age: over 65 |
So, first of all, the numbers suggest gender discrimination as females earn $7.8k less than male data scientists, even controlling for hours/week, skills, company size, and a host of other variables listed in the report.
But a bright spot is that the convention wisdom of wages peaking at 45-50 in the field of technology does not apply to Data Science. Indeed, over 65 earns $16.0k more than 31 to 35!