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2026 Data Professional Salary Survey Results

Brent Ozar has another year of data:

The results are in! You can download the raw data in Excel for all 10 years and do some slicing and dicing to find out whether you’re underpaid, overpaid, or what it looks like for folks who are out there looking for work.

This year, I added a couple of new items to the survey asking about folks who are unemployed and currently looking for work. In hindsight, I wish I would have done this long ago so that we could have a baseline to know whether things have gotten better or worse. Ah, well – the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is now. Let’s dig into the data and see what we find.

Click through for Brent’s initial findings and have fun analyzing the data.

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