Throughline

Technology

Data Scientist in Seattle

25 postings read · sampled 2026-08-02 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 25 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

This sample is small enough that one posting moves any percentage by more than a couple of points, so we are not calling anything low-signal here. Read the numbers above as a direction, not a measurement.

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$81,130
10th percentile
$164,740
median
$230,980
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Pinterest · Anthropic · Stripe · Robinhood · Lyft · OpenAI · Scale AI · SoFi

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