An organization's data, kept organized and moving — you manage how it's collected, stored, and shared, and make sure it's accurate and findable. The quiet order beneath everyone else's data work.
The work mixes organizing data, enforcing standards, and fielding requests from across the organization. You sit between data's producers and its users, and much of the job is keeping it clean, consistent, and accessible. Documentation and quality checks fill the rest.
What surprises people is how much is herding people, not handling data — chasing inputs, fixing inconsistencies, enforcing rules others ignore. Priorities and requests shift constantly, the work can feel thankless, and scope varies widely by organization. You're noticed mainly when data goes wrong.
What this rewards is someone organized, detail-driven, and diplomatically persistent. If you want deep analysis or creative work, the coordinating role may not satisfy. But if you like bringing order to chaos — and being the reason data can be trusted — the work tends to be quietly valuable.
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View all Technology roles →An organization's data, kept organized and moving — you manage how it's collected, stored, and shared, and make sure it's accurate and findable. The quiet order beneath everyone else's data work.
Median pay for a Data Coordinator is about $108K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $60K to $194K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Mathematics, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, and Reading Comprehension.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 21% through 2034, with roughly 263,240 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Data Operations Director, Data Center Product Director, and Clinical Data Management Director (CDM Director).
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