Professional Development

The results are in! You can download the raw data in Excel for all 10 years and do some slicing and dicing to find out whether you’re underpaid, overpaid, or what it looks like for folks who are out there looking for work. This year, I added a couple of new items to the survey…

Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, benefits, and career progression. This year, the survey is for unemployed folks, too! The first question has a new option for “Unemployed (and looking).” Note that if you’re retired, thanks, but you can skip this survey. Congrats…

In this year’s data professional salary survey, I added a new response type for folks who are unemployed and looking for data work. The survey is still in progress, but you can view the data as it’s coming in, and I wanted to take a few minutes to read through the responses of folks who…

Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, benefits, and career progression. This year, the survey is for unemployed folks, too! The first question has a new option for “Unemployed (and looking).” Note that if you’re retired, thanks, but you can skip this survey. Congrats…

We’ve been running our annual Data Professional Salary Survey for almost a decade, 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…

Working today? You’re not alone. As a small business person, I tend to find myself working on emails, catching up with stuff on quiet days like today. Let’s take a second for your professional development though. Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, benefits,…