Glassdoor ranked the position “Safety Manager” among the “50 Best Jobs in America for 2019.”1 The #1 Best Job in America for the past four years, according to Glassdoor, is “Data Scientist.” Data scientists’ base salary is one-third higher, at $108,000, with three-times the job openings (over 6,500) compared to “Safety Manager.”
The term “data scientist” was coined in 2008. In 2009, Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist and UC Berkeley professor of information sciences, business, and economics, predicted that “The ability to take data – to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract from it, to visualize it, to communicate it – that’s going to be hugely important skill in the next decades.”