Technology
Business Intelligence Analysts
Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.
Median salary
$112,590
Typical range
$64k – $194k
Job outlook
+34% (much faster than average)
AI exposure
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Education
Typical entry: Bachelor's degree
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Business Intelligence Analysts Intern
Internship
$36,000
~4 mos to advance
Junior Business Intelligence Analysts
Entry / Junior
$63,650
~2 yrs to advance
Business Intelligence Analysts
Established
$112,590
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Business Intelligence Analysts
Senior
$153,500
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Key skills
A typical day
- •Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
- •Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
- •Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
- •Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
- •Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Technology
Explore all- Massachusetts Institute of Technology4% admit · $124,000 grad pay
- Stanford University4% admit · $122,000 grad pay
- Carnegie Mellon University11% admit · $109,000 grad pay
- University of California, Berkeley11% admit · $97,000 grad pay
- Georgia Institute of Technology16% admit · $99,000 grad pay
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