Let’s Talk Salary. How Much do Analysts in Healthcare Informatics Really Make?

Well, since you’re going for an analytics analyst position, we figure that you would like some data on your possible future salary. DATAAAAAA w00t!

We put together a brief synopsis of the current salary environment for healthcare analytics specialists. Note that this does not cover every single possible healthcare analyst position, but is meant to provide a broad overview and perspective of the current job market and salary expectations.

We could break it out further in the future in to position titles, educational requirements, certification requirements, etc., but for now, we decided to stick only to basics.

If you’d like a beefier version, please feel free to let us know in the comments below.

What We Found, In a Nutshell

Boston, DC, and NYC seem to have the most jobs for clinical or healthcare informatics analyst positions of the top 10 metropolitan areas in the US.
Houston, Dallas, and Miami had the fewest number of open positions.
Most of the salaries (~%70) are around the $80,000 mark or less.
Few positions broke the $150K mark, but those that did were based in NYC, Boston, and Chicago.
The number of informatics jobs has been trending up since the beginning of 2014

Methodology

We took our data from Indeed from listings posted as fitting the keywords “Informatics Data Analyst” on Thursday, April 17, 2014 @ noon. We did this because it gave us jobs that clearly met the technical and clinical blend we were looking for. Other searches resulted in some skewed results, so we felt this was a happy medium.
We took only listings from the top 10 metropolitan areas in the United States as listed by Wikipedia