got some insight today into the relative salaries of data scientists and economists what the hell is wrong with labor markets?
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Explicitly, an entry-level PhD economist at [place] makes twice as much as an entry-level MS data scientist.
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now--the difference in academic rank corrupts the comparison, but frankly I don't see how economist MPL could be so much greater, especially
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. . . given the general econometric ignorance of ML methods outside of a few weirdos like Athey, Varian, Bajari, etc and their acolytes
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. . . and the total lack of enterprise-scale data training built into most phd programs. In academy, economics is nearly pure Small Data.
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Pretty much all we do well is causal inference and time series. And these are super-important and lacking in the commercial settings . . .
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where I've worked and/or interviewed, but also mostly seems like most employers (excluding Amazon) aren't addressing them anyway. So, idk
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Caveat emptor galore, this is based on broad impressions of the current labor market and anecdata rather than deep or systematic analysis.
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