Market Research Analysts: Job, Salary, and School Information from The Riley Guide

Market Research Analysts

Career and Education Info

Job Numbers and Growth

There are about 234,000 market research analysts in the United States. Unemployment for this occupation is low when compared to other careers.

Part-Time Work and Self-Employment

13% of employees work on a part-time basis. 7% of the time, people working as market research analysts are their own boss.

Training and Education

If you want to pursue this career, you will benefit from having a bachelor's degree. The percentage of employees with a 4 year degree is 82%. According to 2008 data 14% of market research analysts have attended college, but do not have a degree. Among workers, 4% have a high-school diploma, but no college education. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.

Area Job Conditions

Jobs for this occupation are most common in Framingham (Massachusetts), San Jose (California), and Wilmington (Delaware), but are rarer in Mobile (Alabama), Eugene (Oregon), and Shreveport (Louisiana).

Market research analysts are paid comparatively more in San Jose (California), Spartanburg (South Carolina), and Seattle (Washington) and comparatively less in College Station (Texas), Fort Walton Beach (Florida), and Myrtle Beach (South Carolina).

Market Research Analysts: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area

The table below shows data for Market Research Analysts, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Market Research Analysts are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Market Research Analysts are starred .

State	Area	Positions	Typical Pay	Popularity in Area
Alabama	Birmingham	190	$65,460	0.2
Alabama	Mobile	50	$66,940	0.2
Alabama	Montgomery	50	$59,480	0.2
Alabama	Tuscaloosa	40		0.3
Alaska	Anchorage	60	$58,020	0.2
Arizona	Flagstaff	60	$45,460	0.7
Arizona	Phoenix	2,950	$60,180	0.8
Arizona	Prescott	70	$61,370	0.7
Arizona	Tucson	880	$50,650	1.3
Arkansas	Fayetteville	240	$53,200	0.7
Arkansas	Fort Smith	80	$49,060	0.4
Arkansas	Little Rock	280	$57,240	0.4
California	Bakersfield	110		0.2
California	Chico	40	$43,900	0.3
California	Fresno	230	$52,820	0.4
California	Modesto	160	$58,120	0.5
California	Napa	60	$74,750	0.6
California	Oakland	2,110	$76,380	1.1
California	Oxnard	600	$61,980	1.1
California	Riverside	1,070	$56,190	0.4
California	Sacramento	1,320	$55,370	0.8
California	Salinas	90	$52,000	0.3
California	San Diego	2,490	$70,990	1
California	San Francisco	4,500	$83,590	2.4
California	San Jose	5,170	$100,010	3
California	San Luis Obispo	80	$54,910	0.5
California	Santa Ana	3,770	$64,030	1.3
California	Santa Barbara	320	$75,720	1.1
California	Santa Cruz	110	$69,880	0.7
California	Santa Rosa	240	$53,820	0.7
California	Stockton	180	$66,940	0.5
California	Vallejo	100	$63,960	0.5
California	Visalia	40	$46,370	0.2
Connecticut	Bridgeport	1,430	$76,540	1.8
Connecticut	Danbury	100	$60,640	0.8
Connecticut	Hartford	770	$62,600	0.7
Connecticut	New Haven	390	$57,410	0.8
Connecticut	Norwich	140		0.6
Delaware	Dover	60	$41,290	0.7
Delaware	Wilmington	1,760	$75,560	2.9
District of Columbia	Washington	9,680	$74,950	2.2
Florida	Cape Coral	60	$62,130	0.2
Florida	Deltona	70	$41,040	0.3
Florida	Fort Lauderdale	940	$54,830	0.7
Florida	Fort Walton Beach	40	$38,040	0.3
Florida	Jacksonville	990	$55,580	0.9
Florida	Lakeland	60	$67,030	0.2
Florida	Miami	900	$66,070	0.5
Florida	Naples	70	$51,680	0.3
Florida	Ocala	40	$61,400	0.2
Florida	Orlando	650	$54,840	0.3
Florida	Palm Bay	140	$53,070	0.4
Florida	Panama City	50	$50,140	0.4
Florida	Sarasota	140	$72,190	0.3
Florida	Tallahassee	130	$58,150	0.4
Florida	Tampa	1,330	$58,130	0.6
Florida	West Palm Beach	510	$65,500	0.5
Georgia	Athens	40	$37,280	0.3
Georgia	Atlanta	5,180	$61,690	1.2
Georgia	Augusta	70	$42,070	0.2
Georgia	Columbus	100	$56,970	0.5
Georgia	Dalton	60	$52,900	0.5
Georgia	Gainesville	40	$62,810	0.3
Georgia	Macon	70	$43,530	0.4
Georgia	Savannah	80	$51,990	0.3
Hawaii	Honolulu	220	$59,190	0.3
Idaho	Boise	310	$65,230	0.6
Idaho	Coeur Dalene	90	$56,000	1
Illinois	Bloomington	130	$70,850	1.1
Illinois	Champaign	180	$51,470	1.1
Illinois	Chicago	11,520	$61,540	1.6
Illinois	Decatur	190	$72,320	2.5
Illinois	Peoria	210	$58,820	0.7
Illinois	Rockford	260	$52,250	1
Illinois	Springfield	310	$58,740	1.7
Indiana	Bloomington	40	$57,950	0.3
Indiana	Evansville	100	$51,080	0.3
Indiana	Fort Wayne	240	$46,590	0.6
Indiana	Gary	120	$52,710	0.2
Indiana	Indianapolis	940	$59,260	0.6
Indiana	Kokomo	30	$74,640	0.5
Indiana	Lafayette	50	$52,420	0.4
Indiana	Muncie	40	$53,140	0.5
Indiana	South Bend	50	$59,810	0.2
Indiana	Terre Haute	40	$53,360	0.3
Iowa	Ames	30	$54,400	0.5
Iowa	Cedar Rapids	310	$66,810	1.3
Iowa	Davenport	250	$52,080	0.8
Iowa	Des Moines	890	$55,510	1.5
Iowa	Dubuque	60	$44,710	0.7
Iowa	Iowa City	70	$54,400	0.6
Iowa	Sioux City	70	$59,620	0.6
Iowa	Waterloo	100	$42,530	0.7
Kansas	Lawrence	60		0.8
Kansas	Topeka	210	$60,660	1.1
Kansas	Wichita	540	$52,760	1
Kentucky	Lexington	150	$60,330	0.3
Kentucky	Louisville	580	$68,530	0.5
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	150	$49,460	0.2
Louisiana	Lafayette	70	$50,950	0.3
Louisiana	New Orleans	280	$43,430	0.3
Louisiana	Shreveport	30	$41,400	0.1
Maine	Portland	100	$58,380	0.3
Maryland	Baltimore	2,320	$68,200	1
Maryland	Bethesda	2,180	$64,880	2.1
Maryland	Hagerstown	40	$65,210	0.2
Maryland	Salisbury	50	$78,530	0.6
Massachusetts	Barnstable Town	130	$48,750	0.8
Massachusetts	Boston	6,800	$75,310	2.1
Massachusetts	Brockton	140	$66,500	0.9
Massachusetts	Framingham	1,050	$81,910	3.6
Massachusetts	Haverhill	120	$65,640	0.9
Massachusetts	Lawrence	80	$74,360	0.9
Massachusetts	Leominster	50	$49,370	0.6
Massachusetts	Lowell	390	$81,700	1.8
Massachusetts	New Bedford	60	$49,010	0.6
Massachusetts	Pittsfield	50	$44,440	1
Massachusetts	Springfield	280	$61,250	0.5
Massachusetts	Taunton	40	$68,390	0.5
Massachusetts	Worcester	460	$71,860	1
Michigan	Ann Arbor	340	$56,040	1.2
Michigan	Battle Creek	50	$61,300	0.6
Michigan	Detroit	1,340	$79,940	1
Michigan	Flint	120	$67,540	0.5
Michigan	Grand Rapids	500	$63,970	0.7
Michigan	Holland	130	$64,610	0.7
Michigan	Kalamazoo	130	$54,080	0.5
Michigan	Lansing	250	$64,570	0.7
Michigan	Muskegon	40	$49,410	0.4
Michigan	Niles	160	$73,460	1.6
Michigan	Saginaw	40	$61,770	0.3
Michigan	Warren	2,690	$71,940	1.2
Minnesota	Duluth	80	$56,440	0.4
Minnesota	Minneapolis	6,740	$74,190	2
Minnesota	Rochester	110	$83,680	0.7
Minnesota	St Cloud	100	$66,330	0.6
Mississippi	Gulfport	60		0.3
Mississippi	Jackson	100	$61,770	0.2
Missouri	Columbia	40	$41,440	0.3
Missouri	Joplin	40	$64,850	0.3
Missouri	Kansas City	1,970	$62,520	1
Missouri	Springfield	180	$39,270	0.5
Missouri	St Joseph	40	$65,010	0.5
Missouri	St Louis	2,390	$62,370	0.9
Montana	Billings	70	$53,350	0.5
Nebraska	Lincoln	310	$51,810	1.1
Nebraska	Omaha	1,280	$64,680	1.5
Nevada	Las Vegas	630	$56,150	0.4
Nevada	Reno	140	$55,650	0.4
New Hampshire	Manchester	90	$67,730	0.5
New Hampshire	Nashua	120	$63,800	0.5
New Hampshire	Portsmouth	100	$58,480	1.1
New Hampshire	Rochester	50	$58,190	0.5
New Jersey	Camden	520	$66,050	0.5
New Jersey	Edison	1,880	$73,520	1
New Jersey	Newark	1,620	$82,230	0.9
New Jersey	Trenton	470	$66,090	1.2
New Mexico	Albuquerque	280	$58,100	0.4
New Mexico	Santa Fe	40	$42,960	0.4
New York	Albany	850	$61,360	1.1
New York	Binghamton	160	$70,760	0.9
New York	Buffalo	920	$61,780	0.9
New York	Elmira	30	$62,330	0.5
New York	Ithaca	60	$51,150	0.9
New York	Kingston	60	$47,170	0.6
New York	Nassau	3,130	$77,840	1.3
New York	New York	18,760	$73,400	2
New York	Poughkeepsie	230	$70,210	0.5
New York	Rochester	1,190	$67,710	1.3
New York	Syracuse	500	$56,310	0.9
New York	Utica	100	$60,240	0.4
North Carolina	Charlotte	1,280	$61,510	0.8
North Carolina	Durham	690	$86,570	1.4
North Carolina	Greensboro	520	$53,290	0.8
North Carolina	Greenville	50	$52,920	0.4
North Carolina	Hickory	170	$66,800	0.6
North Carolina	Raleigh	1,080	$63,720	1.1
North Carolina	Wilmington	80	$58,050	0.3
North Carolina	Winston Salem	360	$63,840	0.9
North Dakota	Fargo	130	$61,100	0.6
Ohio	Akron	600	$64,280	1
Ohio	Canton	150	$60,400	0.5
Ohio	Cincinnati	2,400	$63,280	1.2
Ohio	Cleveland	1,900	$65,580	1
Ohio	Columbus	1,820	$66,730	1
Ohio	Dayton	700	$57,100	1
Ohio	Toledo	410	$58,130	0.7
Ohio	Youngstown	150	$53,600	0.4
Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	820	$44,260	0.8
Oklahoma	Tulsa	670	$53,810	0.8
Oregon	Eugene	40	$49,860	0.2
Oregon	Medford	30	$62,920	0.2
Oregon	Portland	1,570	$72,710	0.8
Pennsylvania	Allentown	560	$59,220	0.9
Pennsylvania	Altoona	60	$53,760	0.6
Pennsylvania	Erie	130	$53,410	0.6
Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	750	$48,990	1.3
Pennsylvania	Johnstown	80	$52,690	0.9
Pennsylvania	Lancaster	420	$56,430	1
Pennsylvania	Lebanon	30	$50,950	0.4
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	6,320	$61,050	1.8
Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	2,640	$53,690	1.2
Pennsylvania	Reading	220	$50,160	0.8
Pennsylvania	Scranton	290	$49,420	0.6
Pennsylvania	State College	130	$70,470	1.4
Pennsylvania	York	220	$50,210	0.7
Rhode Island	Providence	360	$57,010	0.3
South Carolina	Charleston	180	$54,500	0.3
South Carolina	Columbia	210	$56,920	0.3
South Carolina	Florence	30	$48,260	0.2
South Carolina	Greenville	580	$65,160	1
South Carolina	Myrtle Beach	200	$28,480	1
South Carolina	Spartanburg	60	$91,130	0.3
South Dakota	Sioux Falls	100	$49,280	0.4
Tennessee	Chattanooga	90	$55,150	0.2
Tennessee	Clarksville	40	$47,850	0.3
Tennessee	Knoxville	250	$46,190	0.4
Tennessee	Nashville	580	$52,610	0.4
Texas	Abilene	30	$62,300	0.3
Texas	Amarillo	130	$48,400	0.8
Texas	Austin	2,440	$82,200	1.7
Texas	Beaumont	80	$62,370	0.3
Texas	Brownsville	40	$54,260	0.2
Texas	College Station	40	$36,370	0.3
Texas	Corpus Christi	110	$50,150	0.4
Texas	Dallas	5,440	$73,520	1.4
Texas	El Paso	340	$41,050	0.7
Texas	Fort Worth	1,470	$56,040	0.9
Texas	Houston	4,510	$71,430	0.9
Texas	Laredo	60	$49,640	0.4
Texas	Longview	90	$55,330	0.6
Texas	Lubbock	150	$50,650	0.7
Texas	Mcallen	90	$43,340	0.2
Texas	Midland	40	$56,390	0.4
Texas	Odessa	50	$56,380	0.5
Texas	San Angelo	30	$41,930	0.5
Texas	San Antonio	1,200	$64,230	0.8
Texas	Sherman	30	$45,940	0.5
Texas	Tyler	90	$44,430	0.6
Texas	Waco	260	$75,120	1.6
Utah	Ogden	140	$44,920	0.4
Utah	Provo	280	$55,020	1
Utah	Salt Lake City	860	$58,680	0.7
Utah	St George	50	$50,030	0.6
Vermont	Burlington	410	$49,600	2.2
Virginia	Blacksburg	150	$63,070	1.5
Virginia	Charlottesville	300	$48,920	1.9
Virginia	Harrisonburg	100	$40,510	1.1
Virginia	Lynchburg	150	$44,490	0.9
Virginia	Richmond	1,590	$58,510	1.4
Virginia	Roanoke	160	$47,220	0.6
Virginia	Virginia Beach	920	$51,850	0.7
Virginia	Winchester	60	$57,270	0.7
Washington	Bellingham	120	$51,410	0.9
Washington	Bremerton	50	$53,800	0.4
Washington	Kennewick	40	$55,860	0.3
Washington	Olympia	80	$59,390	0.5
Washington	Seattle	7,230	$90,750	2.7
Washington	Spokane	290	$53,800	0.8
Washington	Tacoma	330	$70,980	0.7
Washington	Yakima	40	$60,040	0.3
West Virginia	Charleston	40	$45,560	0.2
West Virginia	Huntington	30	$41,790	0.2
West Virginia	Wheeling	70	$41,220	0.7
Wisconsin	Appleton	100	$60,210	0.5
Wisconsin	Eau Claire	60	$46,320	0.5
Wisconsin	Green Bay	140	$53,640	0.5
Wisconsin	Madison	620	$64,750	1
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	1,340	$72,350	0.8
Wisconsin	Oshkosh	190	$60,670	1.3
Wisconsin	Racine	220	$64,960	1.7
Wisconsin	Sheboygan	40	$65,350	0.4
Wisconsin	Wausau	80	$56,680	0.7
Wyoming	Cheyenne	70	$43,750	1

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