Biostatistician Salary: Your 2025 Guide

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Explore salary estimates and factors that can impact how much you can earn as a biostatistician.

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Biostatisticians are the data science wizards behind statistics and research studies in medicine, agriculture, and public health. As the general population's need for healthcare professionals grows, so does the need for research professionals capable of understanding the ailments affecting them.

That need has driven a high demand for biostatisticians. In India, biostatisticians represent the crossroads of two growing industries: healthcare and big data. For example, the market size for clinical trials in India was 2.05 billion USD in 2024 and is projected to reach 3.37 billion USD in 2030, representing a compound annual growth rate of 8.64 percent [1]. At the same time, the big data market in India reached 2.17 billion USD in 2024 and is expected to grow at a rate of 7.66 percent to reach 3.38 billion USD by 2029 [2]. These figures help demonstrate the high demand for biostatisticians who can dig into healthcare research data. 

Discover how much you can earn as a biostatistician and how your salary may vary based on your education, experience, industry, and location. 

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How much do biostatisticians make?

As a biostatistician, you can expect to earn an above-average salary. Biostatisticians are data science and research experts, so employers sometimes require candidates with master’s or doctorate degrees in a statistics-related field. As a result, pay can vary considerably from one position to another.

The average base pay you can expect to earn as a biostatistician ranges between ₹4,50,000 and ₹6,81,309, according to various pay aggregation sites. At a glance, the average annual base salary  you can earn as a biostatistician is given below, according to four different sources [3, 4, 5, 6]:

GlassdoorAmbitionBoxIndeedPayscale
₹4,90,000₹5,70,000₹6,68,667₹4,87,957

Biostatisticians can earn a good salary no matter where they work, but it varies based on education, experience, industry, and location. Explore how different factors may impact your pay.

Education

Individuals with higher education typically earn higher salaries. This is also true for biostatisticians, who often have master’s or doctorate degrees in statistics or a related field. For a biostatistician, the terminal degree is a doctorate or PhD. 

Experience

In addition to education, biostatisticians can also increase their salary with experience. Both Payscale and AmbitionBox offer estimates of biostatistician salaries according to experience, although the two websites use different scales. AmbitionBox offers the following insights [4]:

  • Less than 1 year of experience: ₹3,70,000

  • 1 to 2 years: ₹3,90,000

  • 2 to 3 years: ₹4,90,000

  • 3 to 4 years: ₹5,90,000

  • 4 to 5 years: ₹6,10,000

  • 5 to 6 years: ₹7,30,000

  • 6 to 7 years: ₹10,60,000

Payscale offers total salary averages at four levels of experience, representing less exact numbers that cover a wider range [6]:

  • Less than 1 year of experience: ₹4,20,000

  • 1 to 4 years: ₹3,67,359

  • 5 to 9 years: ₹8,15,500

  • 10 to 19 years: ₹15,00,000

Industry

Your salary can vary depending on your education and experience level and the industry you work in. Biostatisticians have a range of potential workplaces, such as universities, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and non-profit organisations.

The main industries a biostatistician might work in, and their respective average salaries are as follows [4]:

  • Clinical research: ₹5,60,000

  • Pharma: ₹6,90,000

  • Healthcare: ₹6,80,000 

  • Analytics and KPO: ₹7,60,000

  • Education and training: ₹4,80,000 

  • Biotech and life sciences: ₹7,40,000 

  • Manufacturing: ₹8,50,000 

  • Internet: ₹8,60,000 

  • Software: ₹10,20,000 

By location

Where you live and where your organisation is based can impact your salary as a biostatistician. Typically, working in bigger cities such as Pune, Bangalore, or Hyderabad means you’ll make more to cover the high cost of living. Biostatisticians can work remotely because their jobs can be done on computers and over video conference calls, so as companies and governments have shifted online, salaries may continue to match the location of the organisation. 

As a biostatistician in an Indian city, you might expect to earn the following [4]:

CityAverage annual salary
Bangalore₹5,10,000
Hyderabad₹6,40,000
Pune₹6,90,000
Mumbai₹4,60,000
Ahmedabad₹3,70,000
Chennai₹5,20,000
New Delhi₹6,00,000
Varanasi₹4,00,000
Kolkata₹9,10,000

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Article sources

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Tech Sci Research. “India Clinical Trials Market By Size, Share and Forecast Period, https://www.techsciresearch.com/report/india-clinical-trials-market/7239.html.” Accessed 10 December 2024.  

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