Clinical Data Managers
Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.
Also called: Clinical Data Management Director (CDM Director) · Clinical Data Management Manager (CDM Manager) · Clinical Data Manager · Clinical Informatics Manager · Data Deliverables Manager · Data Management Manager
Median pay (national)
$112,590
$63,650–$194,410 (10th–90th)
Employed (US)
233,440
BLS OEWS, May 2024
Outlook 2024–34
+33.5%
~23,400 openings/yr
Typical entry
Bachelor's degree
What the numbers say
Refit analysis ·Pay for clinical data managers shows an unusually wide range: the top 10% earn $194,410 versus $63,650 at the bottom 10% — 3.1x. The median of $112,590 leaves roughly 73% of headroom to the 90th percentile, which is where seniority, specialization, and the skills below tend to pay off.
Refit analysis ·Employment is projected to change +33.5% from 2024 to 2034 — much faster than the 3% average for all occupations. Even so, BLS projects about 23,400 openings a year, mostly to replace workers who retire or change careers.
Refit analysis ·Where you work moves the number a lot. Across the 51 states with released data, Washington pays the most for this role (median $158,760, +41% vs the national median), while Mississippi sits lowest at $69,430 — a 129% spread for the same job title.
Refit analysis ·O*NET rates Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening as the highest-importance skills here — so a resume aimed at this role should lead with evidence of those, not a generic skills list. On the tools side, O*NET flags Epic Systems, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, Microsoft PowerPoint as in-demand technologies for this role.
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Top skills employers ask for
Ranked by O*NET importance for this occupation.
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Writing
- Active Learning
- Monitoring
- Mathematics
- Learning Strategies
- Science
What they actually do
Core O*NET tasks for this role.
- Design and validate clinical databases, including designing or testing logic checks.
- Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.
- Generate data queries, based on validation checks or errors and omissions identified during data entry, to resolve identified problems.
- Develop project-specific data management plans that address areas such as coding, reporting, or transfer of data, database locks, and work flow processes.
- Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.
- Prepare appropriate formatting to data sets as requested.
- Design forms for receiving, processing, or tracking data.
- Prepare data analysis listings and activity, performance, or progress reports.
- Confer with end users to define or implement clinical system requirements such as data release formats, delivery schedules, and testing protocols.
- Perform quality control audits to ensure accuracy, completeness, or proper usage of clinical systems and data.
Tools & technology
- Epic Systems
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Structured query language SQL
- C#
- C++
- Extensible markup language XML
- Go
- IBM SPSS Statistics
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Oracle Java
- SAS
Knowledge areas
- English Language
- Computers and Electronics
- Customer and Personal Service
- Mathematics
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Administration and Management
- Administrative
- Biology