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A compensation benchmarking analysis of data science salaries from 2020-2022, built as a practical report for hiring managers to set competitive salary bands. This project cleans the raw salary dataset, analyzes compensation trends across experience level, remote work ratio, and company size, and visualizes key patterns through a salary trend line, a remote vs. on-site pay comparison, and a company-size salary distribution. The analysis concludes with a business-facing executive summary highlighting three actionable insights: a significant pay premium for fully remote roles, a 24% year-over-year salary increase from 2021 to 2022, and how small companies remain competitive for senior specialist hiring despite lower overall median pay.