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2026 CITY × PROFESSION SALARY GUIDE

Data Scientist Salary in Philadelphia, PA

Reviewed by Kevin Marshall, CPA

This page starts with the national median salary for data scientist workers, then runs it through ExactTakeHome's 2026 paycheck engine using Philadelphia's state and local tax context. That makes the page materially different from the statewide profession guide: the profession stays fixed, while the tax context changes with the city.

Modeled salary benchmark for data scientists in Philadelphia

ExactTakeHome uses the existing national median salary benchmark of $108,020 for data scientists and analytics specialists, then applies Pennsylvania withholding rules to show what that pay level looks like in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is one of the metros in this repo that carries an additional modeled local wage-tax layer, so the net-pay example below includes that city tax rather than stopping at state-only withholding.

The goal is not to claim every data scientist in Philadelphia earns the same amount. The goal is to give job seekers and movers a stable benchmark they can compare across cities before opening the full calculator with their own filing status, pay frequency, and deduction inputs.

Modeled gross salary$108,020
Federal income tax$14,934
State income tax$3,316
FICA$8,264
Philadelphia local tax$4,040
Estimated take-home pay$77,466

What changes in Philadelphia

On the repo's default assumptions of single filing status, biweekly pay, standard withholding, and no pre-tax deductions, this salary benchmarks at about $77,466 per year, or $2,979 per biweekly paycheck in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia adds an estimated $4,040 per year of local wage-tax withholding on top of federal, FICA, and Pennsylvania state tax in the default scenario used on this page.

If you are comparing job offers, this page is most useful alongside the matching Pennsylvania profession page and the Philadelphia city-salary hub. Those adjacent routes hold the same wage benchmark inside different navigation contexts, which is what makes this family useful for city-first and profession-first search intent.

Use this page with the rest of the salary graph

Nearby city pages for Data Scientist

This family caps same-profession sibling links at 12 per page so the route stays connected without turning every leaf into a full-site directory. The links are chosen from a symmetric ring ordered by state and city name, which keeps the cap stable while ensuring every leaf both sends and receives family inlinks.