Levels.fyi is a great resource for SWE comp information, but it's not available for Data Scientist titles yet. If your title is Data Scientist (ML focus), do you find that the levels.fyi info is relatively accurate for your comp given same level/company? Wondering if DS is paid significantly lower than SWE for same level/company.
Individual data science salaries are actually available on the comp page at https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Data%20Scientist Still need to launch leveling for the companies though
I had not seen that, very helpful
For the same level, DS base ~ 0.9-1.0 x SWE, RSU ~ 0.5-0.7 x SWE. Bonus similar. This is particularly true in the Bay Area w.r.t FAANG (+Lyft, Uber, Airbnb, etc.)
DS is a very broad domain. Many companies like FB treat DS as data analyst, in which case they are lower paid. Other companies, especially startups treat DS as ML specialized people, in which case they are well paid. I haven't come across any resource like levels.fyi for DS. Something similar will be good to have.
Good point, there will be variation by role focus. For ML focus, levels.fyi has a tag (ML/AI), I wonder if those TCs match Data Scientist roles with an ML focus.
Fb also has fair Facebook Ai research and that staff is comp’ed at a different level. Also they are doing groundbreaking work