2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Data Scientists

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 460.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 15-2051
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$126,360 · 50th
$66,70010th
$94,62025th
$126,36050th
$156,17075th
$179,47090th

That is the medianhalf of data scientists in Oxnard earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$126,360 in Oxnard buys what $114,300 buys across the country as a whole.

Oxnard's regional price parity is 110.5 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Fig. 2 — The ladder

What comes next

Median offered base pay by seniority for Data Scientists in Oxnard, classified from job titles on visa filings.

Mid
$105,000
Senior
$146,828
Lead
$220,000
Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in California

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Oxnard
San Jose$185,080$167,600110.4+46.6%
San Francisco$170,110$147,100115.6+28.7%
San Diego$130,990$117,100111.9+2.4%
Santa Cruz$130,980$119,200109.9+4.3%
Los Angeles$129,740$114,200113.6−0.1%
Oxnard This page$126,360$114,300110.5
Santa Rosa$119,930$111,300107.8−2.7%
San Luis Obispo$114,830$105,700108.6−7.5%

Price parity and difference against Oxnard are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 3 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

100k120k140k 20212022202320242025
Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 24.2% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 4.5% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

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
460 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.