{"id":3628,"date":"2014-06-12T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2014-06-12T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:13:15","slug":"tell-kids-data-scientists-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/tell-kids-data-scientists-doctors\/3628\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Your Kids to be Data Scientists, Not Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by John Phillips at CNBC about our data scientist salary study. His article,\u00a0Why Your Kids Will Want to be Data Scientists, was published at the end of May, and in it he raised a very interesting point: \u201cAccording to Burtch Works\u2019 2014 study of salaries for data scientists\u2026 those responsible for a team of 1-3 earn [a median salary of] $140,000 and those responsible for a team of 10 or more earn\u00a0$232,500. By contrast, the mean average annual income for a lawyer in America was $131,990 in 2013, while\u00a0doctors earned\u00a0$183,940, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/tell-kids-data-scientists-doctors\/3628\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by John Phillips at CNBC about our data scientist salary study. His article,\u00a0Why Your Kids Will Want to be Data Scientists, was published at the end of May, and in it he raised a very interesting point: \u201cAccording to Burtch Works\u2019 2014 study of salaries for data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[59,42,63],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-data-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}