Technology
Clinical Data Managers
Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.
Median salary
$112,590
Typical range
$64k – $194k
Job outlook
+34% (much faster than average)
AI exposure
Plan a path to Clinical Data Managers
Education
Typical entry: Bachelor's degree
Plan my path to this →Typical progression
Clinical Data Managers Intern
Internship
$36,000
~4 mos to advance
Junior Clinical Data Managers
Entry / Junior
$63,650
~2 yrs to advance
Clinical Data Managers
Established
$112,590
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Clinical Data Managers
Senior
$153,500
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Key skills
A typical day
- •Design and validate clinical databases, including designing or testing logic checks.
- •Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.
- •Generate data queries, based on validation checks or errors and omissions identified during data entry, to resolve identified problems.
- •Develop project-specific data management plans that address areas such as coding, reporting, or transfer of data, database locks, and work flow processes.
- •Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.
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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