Economists

What do Economists do?

Conduct research, prepare reports, or formulate plans to address economic problems related to the production and distribution of goods and services or monetary and fiscal policy. May collect and process economic and statistical data using sampling techniques and econometric methods. Excludes “Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists” (13-1161).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 19-3011)

What our data shows for Economists

RoleHue publishes 55 salary records for Economists, across 4 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $127,103 at the 25th percentile to $199,343 at the 75th, a spread of $72,240 around $154,927. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $154,927 figure rather than in dollars (47% of it), that spread is wider than 82% of the roles we cover, so a single figure summarises this title worse than it does most others.

Chicago, IL carries the highest median we hold for the role at $162,500; Washington, DC the lowest at $149,000, a gap of $13,500. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $11,000, narrower than the $72,240 band within cities: for Economists, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 20 of the 55 records we publish for this role (36%). No city here reaches 25 records, the depth we treat as our threshold for calling a city median well evidenced, so every city median on this page rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 55 data points.

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