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Lead Data Scientist in New York City, NY

Job title · New York City, New York

Job title as filed
Lead Data Scientist
City
New York City, New York
Applications FY2022–FY2026
80
Median offered wage
$185,000
Most common occupation
Data Scientists
Median wage$185,000certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition applications with the job title "Lead Data Scientist" and a worksite in New York City.

Applications by fiscal year

1223FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
1223FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202213
FY202312
FY202423
FY202516
FY2026*16
Certified (decided applications)
100.0%
Employers filing
38

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Aetna Resources LLC23
  2. The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.8
  3. Finco Services Inc4
  4. Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC3
  5. IBM Corporation3
  6. S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc.2
  7. AT&T Services, Inc.2
  8. C3.ai, Inc.2
  9. Digitas, Inc.2
  10. Quantium, Inc.2
  11. Caremark LLC2
  12. Fitch Group Services, Inc.1

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $185,000; middle half $169,770 to $199,118 · median prevailing wage $153,171 (marker) · 79 applications.

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Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I3
  2. Level II6
  3. Level III26
  4. Level IV45

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Lead Data Scientist" appears on 805 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 283 employers for worksites in 246 cities; the median offered wage is $155,000, so the median in New York City is 19.4% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
805
Employers nationwide
283
Cities with filings
246
National median offered wage
$155,000
Share of national filings in New York City
9.9%
Cities with the most applications for Lead Data Scientist
  1. New York City, NY80
  2. San Francisco, CA44
  3. Boston, MA40
  4. Chicago, IL33
  5. Minneapolis, MN24
  6. Atlanta, GA21
  7. Charlotte, NC15
  8. Sunnyvale, CA13
  9. Cincinnati, OH12
  10. Seattle, WA12

The New York City job market

New York City has 163,518 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 40,783 job titles and 16,582 employers; "Lead Data Scientist" ranks #185 by applications, with 0.0% of them.

Applications in New York City, all job titles
163,518
Job titles filed
40,783
Rank of Lead Data Scientist in New York City
185
Median offered wage in New York City, all job titles
$141,523
National median wage, Data Scientists (all job titles)
$120,994
Other job titles in New York City
  1. Software Engineer7,682
  2. Associate7,483
  3. Vice President3,993
  4. Analyst3,261
  5. Senior Software Engineer1,919
  6. Software Developer1,600
  7. Data Scientist1,392
  8. Senior Associate1,297
  9. Manager1,055
  10. Software Development Engineer II967