Also called: Business Analyst, Reporting Analyst
Answers business questions by pulling, analyzing, and visualizing data.
Your manager asks why sales dropped in Texas last month. You query the database, build a chart in Tableau, and discover a shipping delay, all before lunch.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in business, economics, math, or similar; SQL and Excel skills; certificates help.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification, Self-taught. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Business Analytics, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics.
Growing faster than average. Grows with data use, but routine reporting is being automated.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI tools answer business questions and build charts on request, sharply cutting entry-level analyst openings.
Classes: AP Statistics, Computer applications, Economics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-2051.
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