A couple of days ago, the Association has written in its Blog on excess demand for IRI/Education Analytics expert.  The following job post is fairly recent, and one can learn from this job post the following:

• What academic/education background needed to make the 6 figures?
• What are the skill sets needed to have a successful job search?
• What kind of salary is expected?
• what technical skill sets are required?

This recent job post also sends a glimpse, but strong signals to many schools, especially the HR Department how to attract the already-limited qualified applicants to apply.  If the paid is only in the range of $50-70K; then very likely an institution will only find a “half-baked professionals” to apply such as IR Directors with an EdD or an IR analysts with a soft social science background, which certainly does not meet the job required qualification for this post (please check & look at the link above).  It surely more suitable for applicants with “hard-science” or hard-social science such as economics with a solid econometrics, applied statistics & econometric modeling background.

If one looks carefully, there is one thing that is missing from the requirements which is the ability to write codes (R, Python, C++, Java or SAS).  In that sense, it is consistent with the title of the position which seems to stress more on data visualization (Tableau & SAS Visual), and less on the IRI Analytics (math programming, predictive modeling and the ability to run a stochastic simulation).  Even with this less rigorous requirements, the institution is willing to offer a decent salary.