Announcing the 2024 Data Professional Salary Survey Results.


This is the 8th year now that we’ve been running our annual Data Professional Salary Survey, and I was really curious to see what the results would hold this year. How would inflation and layoffs impact the database world? Download the raw data here and slice & dice it to see what’s important to you. Here’s what I found.

First, without filtering the data at all, salaries are up, but response counts continue to drop:

If we filter for just United States folks whose primary database is SQL Server or Azure SQL DB, the salary numbers are higher, and are