DS Salary is mainly determined by geography, not your skill level

I have built a model that predicts the salary of Data Scientists / ML Engineers based on 23,997 responses and 294 questions from a 2022 Kaggle Machine Learning & Data Science Survey.

Below are the feature importances from LGBM.

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).

Source: [https://jobs-in-data.com/salary/data-scientist-salary](https://jobs-in-data.com/salary/data-scientist-salary)



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