Competition
Demystifying Data Salaries đź’° - Level 2
You work for an international HR consultancy helping companies attract and retain top talent in the competitive tech industry. As part of your services, you provide clients with insights into industry salary trends to ensure they remain competitive in hiring and compensation practices. Your team wants to use a data-driven approach to analyse how various factors—such as job role, experience level, remote work, and company size—impact salaries globally. By understanding these trends, you can advise clients on offering competitive packages to attract the best talent. In this competition, you’ll explore and visualise salary data from thousands of employees worldwide. If you're tackling the advanced level, you'll go a step further — building predictive models to uncover key salary drivers and providing insights on how to enhance future data collection.
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Your challenge
In this second level, you’ll create visualisations to analyse the data and uncover trends. If you’re up for an even greater challenge, head to level three! Create a report that answers the following:
- Create a bar chart displaying the top 5 job titles with the highest average salary (in USD).
- Compare the average salaries for employees working remotely 100%, 50%, and 0%. What patterns or trends do you observe?
- Visualise the salary distribution (in USD) across company sizes (S, M, L). Which company size offers the highest average salary?
How to get started
Create your most insightful analysis using DataLab, our in-browser tool to write, run, and publish data analyses. Once you’ve finished your work, you’ll need to publish it for review.
Judging criteria
This is a community-based competition. Once the competition concludes, you'll have the opportunity to view and vote for the best submissions of others as the voting begins. The top 5 most upvoted entries will win. The winners will receive DataCamp merchandise.
Rules
- Entries to the competition take the form of a workbook publication. Make sure the competition publication is publicly visible in order to be entered into the competition.
- Your publication should be focused on data provided within the competition.
- The competition is open and free to registered DataCamp users.
- Only one entry per user. You may update your entry up to the deadline. You can participate in more than one level though
- Make sure your competition workbook is published by the competition deadline in order for it to be valid.
- You can check the time left to submit on the counter at the top of this page.
Note: Please make sure you're 18+ years old and are allowed to take part in a skill-based competition from your country.
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You will create a data analysis based on the dataset provided. You will submit your ready-to-share notebook publication for a review by fellow DataCamp learners and the judging panel in accordance with the evaluation metrics created for the competition.
How long does a competition run?
The detailed information on the competition timeline can be found on the competition’s homepage. Most DataCamp Competitions include two deadlines: a submission deadline (after which no new submissions will be accepted), and a voting deadline (after which no new votes be counted towards final evaluation). It is very, very important to keep these deadlines in mind.
What makes a winning solution?
The winners will be selected based on the judging criteria provided in the description of each competition.
How will I get my prize? Are there any conditions?
We will contact each winner separately to agree on the best way to deliver the prize. The winners are responsible for any fees or taxes liable in your home country upon receiving the funds. Any relevant conditions will be stated in the Competition Rules and Terms of Use.
Are teams allowed?
Not yet, but we are exploring this opportunity for future competitions.