Data Scientists
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 840.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of data scientists in Buffalo earn more.
$102,250 in Buffalo buys what $106,700 buys across the country as a whole.
Buffalo's regional price parity is 95.8 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
What comes next
Median offered base pay by seniority for Data Scientists in Buffalo, classified from job titles on visa filings.
The same job, elsewhere in New York
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Buffalo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | $135,980 | $120,800 | 112.6 | +13.2% |
| Syracuse | $108,680 | $113,500 | 95.7 | +6.4% |
| Kiryas Joel | $107,310 | $98,100 | 109.4 | −8.1% |
| Kingston | $105,160 | $104,400 | 100.7 | −2.1% |
| Glens Falls | $104,620 | $110,300 | 94.9 | +3.4% |
| Binghamton | $103,130 | $111,100 | 92.9 | +4.1% |
| Buffalo This page | $102,250 | $106,700 | 95.8 | — |
| Albany | $98,940 | $99,400 | 99.6 | −6.9% |
Price parity and difference against Buffalo are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 9.0% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 8.3% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Career ladder
- Seniority classified from job titles on the same visa filings; levels shown only with five or more filings each and a strictly rising progression.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 840 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 15-2051, Data Scientists. Mapped to our taxonomy as data-scientists.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.