Almost two in five (38.7%) of these professionals work in Captive Centres established by MNCs in India.This is followed by the BFSI and Internet & Technology sectors at 13.9% and 12.6%, respectively. More than one in four (28.8%) of these professionals work in the IT & Consulting sector.Around 1,400 data science professionals working in India are paid a salary of more than INR 1 Crore.The data was collated around the last week of June 2021. The research presented in this report has been collected from publicly available data, including news reports, academic journals, job sites, and other information portals. In addition, the report outlines how large companies are aligning their companies to be more data-driven and leveraging analytics in their strategy. It provides an overview of the analytics professionals with a salary package greater than INR 1 Crore and their break up across parameters such as sectors, geographies, company type, education, years of experience, and gender representation. This report aims to analyse the data professionals hired at the highest level with the most competitive salaries. With the industry showing considerable growth and an overall increase in the demand for analytics or data science post-pandemic, this salary is expected to grow even further in the coming years. Even though the pandemic resulted in a decrease in the median salary of analytics professionals in 2021 compared to 2020, it was still higher than in 2019. Overall, the analytics professionals have seen an increase in their pay and the industry has seen more analytics professionals being hired in strategic positions to ensure enterprise-wide adoption. The scale of growth of any domain is evinced by the salaries drawn by experienced professionals or the growth in the proportion of experienced professionals drawing higher wages.

Analytics professionals are in demand, and organisations are willing to pay competitive salaries to attract the best talent. As a result, the analytics or data science function has witnessed significant growth in the past couple of years. Data has become central to organisations across every industry as they realise its potential in strategic decision-making or effective process automation.

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