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Specialties that raise your pay

• Biostatistics

  Designing and analysing clinical trials. Regulated, careful work, and the best-paid branch outside finance.

• Survey methodology

  Sampling and weighting for national surveys. Statistics Canada is the biggest employer of this skill in the country.

• Machine learning

  Statistics is the honest half of this field. Statisticians who code move into it easily.

• Actuarial work

  A related path with its own professional exams and a higher pay floor.