Data Scientists salary in Texas

The median Data Scientist in Texas earned $106,540 in 2024, about 8% below the US median of $115,636. That gap is smaller than it first looks. Texas has a cost-of-living index of 97, just under the national baseline of 100, so the dollar goes slightly further here than the nominal figures suggest. Adjusted for that, the real gap narrows to closer to 5%.

The spread across earners is wide. The 10th percentile came in at $61,230, while the 90th reached $169,310. Top earners in Texas make roughly 2.75 times what those at the bottom of the range do. That kind of spread is typical for a role where experience, industry, and specialization vary a lot. A data scientist at an oil and gas firm in Houston is often doing different work, at a different pay level, than one at a health tech startup in Austin.

The mean wage of $114,800 sits well above the median of $106,540. That tells us a smaller group of higher-paid practitioners pulls the average up, while most earners cluster in the $81,000 to $138,000 range that the 25th and 75th percentiles define.

BLS projects employment for this occupation to grow 33.5% between 2024 and 2034, a pace it classifies as much faster than average. Texas already employs 23,420 people in this role, one of the larger state totals in the country. If that projection holds, the in-state job base would be meaningfully larger by the end of the decade.