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title: "Clinical Data Manager"
description: "Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/clinical-data-manager"
last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z"
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# Clinical Data Manager

**Category:** Computer and Mathematical · **SOC code:** 15-2051 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 15-2051.02

Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.

Also advertised as: Clinical Data Management Director (CDM Director); Clinical Data Management Manager (CDM Manager); Clinical Data Manager; Clinical Informatics Manager; Data Deliverables Manager; Data Management Manager.

## 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:** 7/100 — 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/clinical-data-manager/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/clinical-data-manager.

## 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 | 85.0% |
| Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) | 5.0% |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 5.0% |
| Master's Degree | 5.0% |

## What the work involves

- Design and validate clinical databases, including designing or testing logic checks.
- Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.
- Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.
- Confer with end users to define or implement clinical system requirements such as data release formats, delivery schedules, and testing protocols.
- Evaluate processes and technologies, and suggest revisions to increase productivity and efficiency.
- Write work instruction manuals, data capture guidelines, or standard operating procedures.
- Track the flow of work forms, including in-house data flow or electronic forms transfer.
- Read technical literature and participate in continuing education or professional associations to maintain awareness of current database technology and best practices.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Critical Thinking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.9 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
- Writing — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.5 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.

- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Programming — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- English Language — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Medicine and Dentistry — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Information Ordering — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- 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 3.9 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 | 6.58 |
| I — Investigative | 5.66 |
| E — Enterprising | 3.30 |
| S — Social | 2.82 |
| A — Artistic | 1.27 |
| R — Realistic | 1.25 |

### 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 | 74.6 |
| ESTJ | 69.8 |
| INTJ | 67.2 |
| ISFJ | 66.8 |
| ENTJ | 62.0 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ, ESTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Clinical Research Coordinator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/clinical-research-coordinator) — median $167,220
- [Health Informatics Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-informatics-specialist) — median $105,850
- [Data Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/data-scientist) — median $120,230
- [Social Science Research Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/social-science-research-assistant) — median $61,990
- [Bioinformatics Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/bioinformatics-technician) — median $81,490
- [Statistician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/statistician) — median $105,650
- [Biostatistician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/biostatistician) — median $105,650
- [Management Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst) — median $101,860
- [Statistical Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/statistical-assistant) — median $50,330
- [Business Intelligence Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-intelligence-analyst) — 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

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