Salary of a Junior Data Engineer

How much money can a Data Engineer ask for?

I had already written articles about what Data Engineers and Data Engineer Seniors earn and the feedback was great and also a discussion arose that was quite interesting as there are some outliers. Now I would like to take a closer look at the Junior Data Engineer.

First let’s look at how to become a Data Engineer in general. There are many courses with which you can become a Data Engineer. Professionals from the fields of Informatics, Computer Technology or Statistics can work as Data Engineers. For an optimal start, there are further training courses that prepare students for the fields of Business Intelligence, Databases, ETL or Data Science, among others. The study program “Data Engineer” is still a rarity, but this is not surprising, because as a Data Engineer you usually take over other tasks from the field of Data Analytics, IT Architecture and others. A generalist education is therefore helpful here. In the meantime, however, there are actually some courses of study, even in Germany, for example, I found what I was looking for. In this program, students deepen the scientific foundations of computer science and acquire theoretical, methodological and practical skills for dealing with complex information systems. The focus is on the core areas of data management, data analysis and data visualization [1].

But now to the question of what young entry-level employees can demand as an entry-level salary. Here, I will also compare Europe to the United States. Most of the time, the Americans are ahead, but how does it look in the area of junior Data Engineers?

The Salary of a Junior Data Engineer in the US ranges from USD $53,282 to USD $79,922 , with a median salary of USD $66,602 . The middle 67% of Jr. Data Engineers makes USD $66,602, with the top 67% making USD $79,922[2]. Higher salaries of up to USD $100,000 as an entry-level employee seem possible here, when working in a big tech company such as Google or Microsoft [3]. Interestingly, Juniors in Germany do not earn much less. They start with about EUR 51,000€, which is about USD 51,929$[4].

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