--- title: "Business Intelligence Analyst" description: "Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and…" canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-intelligence-analyst" last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z" --- # Business Intelligence Analyst **Category:** Computer and Mathematical · **SOC code:** 15-2051 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 15-2051.01 Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources. Also advertised as: Business Analyst; Business Intelligence Analyst (BI Analyst); Business Intelligence Consultant (BI Consultant); Business Intelligence Coordinator (BI Coordinator); Business Intelligence Specialist (BI Specialist); Competitive Intelligence Analyst; Intelligence Analyst; Market Intelligence Analyst. ## At a glance - **Median annual wage:** $120,230 (BLS OEWS, May 2025) - **Median hourly wage:** $57.80/hr - **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $67,240 to $199,130, with the middle half between $85,660 and $158,880 - **Total US employment:** 262,440 - **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's - **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed" - **Projected growth:** +33.5% over 2024–2034 (BLS EP, 2024–2034) - **Annual job openings:** 23,400 openings a year - **AI-resilience score:** 4/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure ## Pay National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 262,440 US jobs. | Percentile | Annual wage | | --- | --- | | 10th | $67,240 | | 25th | $85,660 | | 50th (median) | $120,230 | | 75th | $158,880 | | 90th | $199,130 | | Mean (average) | $126,800 | ### Pay by state The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there. | State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | WA | $163,350 | $152,645 | 9,600 | | CA | $141,590 | $127,881 | 39,310 | | MD | $136,370 | $129,927 | 3,340 | | NJ | $135,280 | $124,333 | 6,430 | | MA | $131,750 | $124,578 | 9,420 | | NY | $130,460 | $120,885 | 23,970 | | MN | $128,800 | $130,601 | 4,020 | | VT | $127,070 | $129,719 | 200 | | DC | $126,490 | $115,094 | 2,680 | | VA | $126,430 | $125,049 | 8,920 | | CT | $126,340 | $121,938 | 1,760 | | OR | $125,990 | $121,893 | 2,140 | | TX | $122,090 | $125,792 | 25,860 | | NC | $119,090 | $126,254 | 11,430 | | CO | $117,400 | $113,923 | 6,280 | 35 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 50 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-intelligence-analyst/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/business-intelligence-analyst. ## Outlook BLS projects employment to move from 245,900 in the 2024–2034 base year to 328,300 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 82,500 jobs, or +33.5%. Much faster than average: 33.5% against 3.1% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 23,400 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2024–2034. ## How to get in - **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections). - **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed". - **Related work experience typically required:** None. - **Typical on-the-job training:** None. ### Education people in this job actually hold O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above. | Education level | Share of workers | | --- | --- | | Bachelor's Degree | 68.2% | | Master's Degree | 22.7% | | Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) | 4.6% | | Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 4.6% | ## What the work involves - Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders. - Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods. - Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users. - Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications. - Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs. - Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources. - Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs. - Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action. ## Skills and knowledge ### Essential skills - Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Active Listening — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Speaking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Critical Thinking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Active Learning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Writing — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Mathematics — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Monitoring — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale ### Transferable skills These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site. - Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Systems Analysis — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Systems Evaluation — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Time Management — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Coordination — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Instructing — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Social Perceptiveness — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale ### Knowledge areas - Computers and Electronics — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Mathematics — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - English Language — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Administration and Management — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Economics and Accounting — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale ### Abilities - Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Written Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Written Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Inductive Reasoning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale - Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale ## Who it suits O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Conventional (C), Investigative (I), Enterprising (E). | Interest area | Score (1–7) | | --- | --- | | C — Conventional | 5.79 | | I — Investigative | 5.41 | | E — Enterprising | 4.42 | | A — Artistic | 1.93 | | S — Social | 1.85 | | R — Realistic | 1.24 | ### Personality fit These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job. | Type | Fit score (0–100) | | --- | --- | | ISTJ | 72.7 | | INTJ | 70.8 | | ESTJ | 70.4 | | ENTJ | 69.1 | | ISFJ | 57.3 | Best-fitting types: ISTJ, INTJ, ESTJ, ENTJ. The bank also flags this occupation as introvert-friendly, meaning O\*NET work-context ratings put it low on public contact and performing for the public. ## Related occupations O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order. - [Data Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/data-scientist) — median $120,230 - [Computer Systems Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-systems-analyst) — median $105,850 - [Market Research Analyst and Marketing Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/market-research-analyst-and-marketing-specialist) — median $78,760 - [Statistical Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/statistical-assistant) — median $50,330 - [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager) — median $166,790 - [Search Marketing Strategist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/search-marketing-strategist) — median $78,760 - [Financial Risk Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-risk-specialist) — median $117,330 - [Operations Research Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/operations-research-analyst) — median $88,940 - [Document Management Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/document-management-specialist) — median $116,580 - [Clinical Data Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/clinical-data-manager) — median $120,230 ## Sources - **O\*NET** — O\*NET 30.3 Database, May 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html - **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/ - **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2024–2034. https://www.bls.gov/emp/ - **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–2034 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/ - **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area --- This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105). O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology JSON representation of this page: https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/business-intelligence-analyst