Louis Columbus, Forbes, based on data from WANTED Analytics, a CEB Company
Louis Columbus:
The median advertised salary for professionals with big data expertise is $124,000 a year. Sample jobs in this category include Software Engineer, Big Data Platform Engineer, Information Systems Developer, Platform Software Engineer, Data Quality Director, and many others.
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