Side-by-side distribution
BI Analyst
$105,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 31.7%
- Live roles
- 366
Data Engineer
$165,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 30.5%
- Live roles
- 5,838
Highest-paying jobs
Senior Business Intelligence & Reporting Analyst, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Jersey City, NJ:
Senior HCM Analytics & BI Developer
Air and Missile Defense Data Visualization Analyst
Staff Business Intelligence Analyst (Finance)
Senior Director, Data Analysis (BI Shared Analyst Team)
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst - Finance & Accounting
Business Intelligence Analyst
Business Intelligence Analyst
Senior Manager, Salesforce Business Intelligence Developer-Commercial
Senior Business Intelligence & Automation Analyst
Highest-paying jobs
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform
Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer
Staff / Principal Data Engineer
Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)
Software Engineer, Data Acquisition
Data Platform Engineer
Software Engineer, Search Systems - Code Data
Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training
Data Engineer
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Launch Potato
|
$135,000 | 6 |
Horizon Media
|
$91,250 | 4 |
| PA PacificSource | $87,576 | 4 |
|
CACI
|
$139,950 | 3 |
|
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$126,750 | 3 |
COUNTRY Financial
|
$105,925 | 3 |
|
Block
|
$169,000 | 2 |
Sutter Health
|
$134,046 | 2 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
Speechify
|
$170,000 | 144 |
|
Booz Allen Hamilton
|
$126,800 | 81 |
Accenture Federal Services
|
$149,800 | 28 |
|
CACI
|
$139,950 | 25 |
Olsson
|
$120,000 | 21 |
Leidos
|
$151,475 | 19 |
Northrop Grumman
|
$127,350 | 18 |
|
Blue Origin
|
$188,162 | 17 |
Data Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $210,000 | 191 |
| Seattle | $195,647 | 68 |
| New York | $192,618 | 212 |
| Los Angeles | $180,350 | 33 |
| Boston | $173,750 | 53 |
| Singapore | $165,000 | 5 |
| Austin | $161,450 | 51 |
| Chicago | $154,600 | 90 |
| Denver | $153,300 | 56 |
| Atlanta | $153,300 | 35 |
BI Analyst vs Data Engineer: which pays more?
The median for BI Analyst is $105,000 per year (typically $84,976–$128,063), versus $165,000 for Data Engineer ($130,650–$193,000). That puts Data Engineer about 57% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so BI Analyst and Data Engineer are compared on equal terms regardless of the currency each role was originally posted in. Only roles that publish a salary range feed the medians; numbers refresh every few hours as new roles post and older ones close, so this comparison reflects the market right now rather than a fixed survey. Use it as a directional benchmark when weighing one path against the other.