Salary
Average Salary: $60,000
Expected Lifetime Earnings: $2,517,000
What’s the market look like for market research analysts? Not too shabby. They have to give people a reason to do this job, after all. Median pay is 60k per year. Market research analysts working in the manufacturing industry or as management for specific companies and enterprises rake in the most, around 67k annually. The top ten percent earn around 115k.
And more importantly, as analysts undoubtedly already know, job prospects are great. These jobs are expected to grow at a whopping 32 percent, which is way above related jobs like business operations specialists. As more companies turn to data to understand what their customer want, more companies are gonna need people to interpret the data. So market research analysis is trending majorly, and it’s a trend that’s got some serious staying power.
Note to the wise: make like the early miners and head west. Many of the top-paying cities for market research analysts (such as San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland) are in California.