I've been working for 3 years since graduation and the first 2 years I worked in aviation consultancy. Mostly doing data/BI analysis but my main title and job was airport planner. I've made a move to the data science team and have been working as a data scientist for just over a year now and I'm only earning £37k.
I want to make a jump to a higher paid data science role but I feel a bit insecure that 2/3yrs of my experience is not in data science.

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Most of actual applied data science is not actually data science.

My advice is to find a data science role in a bank. With your experience you come in as an associate with base >50k and probably ~20% bonus.

We've been hiring lots of people with zero banking experience. If it was a few months ago I'd be saying come work for me!

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That's really good to know. I've seen jobs advertised as associate and thought its too senior for me cz in my company associate is like one of the highest positions 😆

If you know what you are doing your years of experience in a specific topic shouldn’t matter. Highlight all your transferable skills and experience and let them decide if you fit the role rather than telling yourself that you don’t.

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You could also move to a smaller scale or start up where you have the possibility to grow your skill and responsibilities with the company, and getting a job there might be experience. Probs will stay at that salary for now, but in around 2 years will have much better profile (experience in DS and worked in a start up) and can then bake a big jump.

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I have been thinking about the smaller tech company the most. A lot of their work sounds v exciting. :)

If you want to be in a big 4, Deloitte has a data analytics team within risk advisory they are hiring for

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Thanks everyone for the replies. Definitely lots to thinks about 😁😀

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Have you looked at MBB, tech , startups or even banks? Data science is a super hot topic so if you apply you should be fine.

No need to feel insecure about your background. But you do need to change sector - you‘ll be amazed what a difference it makes to be in a sector with money to spend

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