Data Scientist (Multiple Levels)
Noblis
Washington, DC · $72k a year · Posted November 2, 2026
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Where Washington, DC ranks
Where Washington, DC placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #1Cities hosting the most business conferences in the Mid-Atlantic104 conferences · of 12
- #1Cities hosting the most government & public sector conferences18 conferences · of 29
- #1Cities hosting the most accounting & audit conferences8 conferences · of 14
- #1Cities hosting the most finance conferences9 conferences · of 24
- #1Cities hosting the most legal conferences10 conferences · of 10
- #2Best cities for sales pay after cost of living$169k · of 45
Rankings about data & analytics jobs
- Best cities for data and analytics jobs #1 New York (1,713 openings)
- Best cities for data and analytics pay after cost of living #1 Foster ($232k)
- Most requested AI skills in data and analytics jobs #1 Machine learning engineering (17.1%)
- AI tools named most often in data and analytics jobs #1 Databricks (7.6%)
- Employers with the most data and analytics jobs #1 Amazon (711 roles)
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Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $71,800 a year. Across 159 open data scientist listings that state pay, the middle half runs $128,000 to $195,500 and the median is $157,000. That is 54% below the median, below the middle half of those listings.
Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
How AI is used in this kind of work
Among data scientists, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks. Measured exposure for data scientists: 46% (high).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
Noblis has filed one layoff notice in the last twelve months, covering 115 workers, most recently April 2026. These are public filings with state labor departments, and an open role can sit alongside them. See the filings
About the job
...Matter Experts (SMEs) across multiple levels (I-V) to support data science, aviation, engineering, psychological, analytical, and... ...teams—including software engineers, data analysts, behavioral scientists, and domain experts—to integrate data science solutions into operational...