[D] Your salary is determined mainly by geography, not your skill level (conclusions from the salary model built with 24k samples and 300 questions)

I have built a model that predicts the salary of Data Scientists / Machine Learning Engineers based on 23,997 responses and 294 questions from a 2022 Kaggle Machine Learning & Data Science Survey (Source: [https://jobs-in-data.com/salary/data-scientist-salary](https://jobs-in-data.com/salary/data-scientist-salary))

I have studied the feature importances from the LGBM model.

TL;DR: Country of residence is **an order of magnitude more important** than anything else (including your experience, job title or the industry you work in). So - if you want to follow the famous "work …

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