Thanks for the article, Keith. Great insights! Data science is still an evolving field and the demand is increasing more rapidly than "experienced" supply. Thus, the salary of a data scientist with 1-2 years of experience grows exponentially when changing jobs. However, if you keep staying at your current position, you are likely to have a linear increase on your salary. I think this is the main reason why turnover in the data science ecosystem is higher than the other mature fields.