 All right, so let's go through my salaries over the past six years as a data analyst. My very first job as a data analyst was at a non-profit making $47,000. My next job was at a small healthcare analytics company making $63,000. One thing to note about that job is it was a contract to hire, so I was a contractor for six months and then they hired me on full time. My next job was at a Fortune 500 company and actually took a title decrease, if that's what you wanna call it, to a junior data analyst, but my salary went up to $78,000. That position was also contract to hire, but then I got promoted after about six months and then I was making $90,000 with a 10% bonus. After working in that position for two years, I got promoted to an analytics manager where I was making $125,000 with a 15% bonus. I think the biggest thing that really helped me make more money over those five years was switching careers after about a year or looking for promotions after about one year. That allowed me to make about a 20% or more jump at almost every job that I had.