Introduction

SINCE 2013, WE HAVE CONDUCTED AN ONLINE SALARY SURVEY FOR DATA PROFESSIONALS and published a report on our findings. US respondents typically dominate the sample, at about 60%–70%. Although many of the findings do appear to apply to people across the globe, we thought it would be useful to show results specific to Europe, looking at finer geographical details and identifying any patterns that seem to only apply to Europe. In this report, we pool all 359 European respondents from the Data Salary Survey over a 13-month period: September 2015 to October 2016.

The median salary of European respondents was €48K, but the spread was huge. For example, the top third earned almost four times on average as the bottom third. Such a large variance is not surprising due to the differences in the per capita income of countries represented.

A note on currency: we requested responses about salaries and other monetary amounts in US dollars. In this report, we have converted all amounts into euros, though many European respondents are paid in other currencies, such as pounds or rubles. Over the period in which responses were collected, there were some important shifts in exchange rates, most notably the fall of the pound after Brexit. However, the geographical distribution of responses did not correlate in any meaningful way with any period of collection (e.g., when the pound was high or low), so these currency fluctuations likely translate into noise rather than bias.