AI Salary Index
Based on 5,133 postings that publish a USD pay range (mostly US roles, thanks to pay-transparency laws). Midpoint of each posted base range. Overall median: $230k.
By role family
| Group | Median midpoint | | Jobs |
|---|
| Research | $290k | | 313 |
| ML / AI Engineering | $245k | | 539 |
| Software Engineering | $237k | | 1880 |
| Product & Design | $228k | | 349 |
| Sales & GTM | $218k | | 787 |
| Data | $205k | | 105 |
| Operations & Other | $202k | | 1160 |
By location label
| Group | Median midpoint | | Jobs |
|---|
| Region | $248k | | 106 |
| Unclear | $247k | | 919 |
| US-only | $239k | | 426 |
| Onsite | $222k | | 3682 |
By company
| Group | Median midpoint | | Jobs |
|---|
| Inflection AI | $450k | | 4 |
| Anthropic | $352k | | 515 |
| Airtable | $313k | | 3 |
| OpenAI | $308k | | 624 |
| Pika | $292k | | 6 |
| Sierra | $285k | | 102 |
| Turing | $285k | | 16 |
| Wayve | $285k | | 71 |
| Suno | $265k | | 63 |
| Suki | $259k | | 4 |
| Snorkel AI | $252k | | 41 |
| Firecrawl | $248k | | 33 |
| Cohere | $242k | | 33 |
| Decagon | $241k | | 108 |
| Browserbase | $240k | | 9 |
| Waymo | $238k | | 257 |
| Vapi | $238k | | 18 |
| Replit | $238k | | 56 |
| Figma | $236k | | 85 |
| Harvey | $230k | | 228 |
| Pinecone | $230k | | 5 |
| Exa | $230k | | 49 |
| Mercor | $230k | | 103 |
| Scale AI | $230k | | 122 |
| Generate Biomedicines | $228k | | 13 |
| Profluent | $226k | | 13 |
| Cresta | $225k | | 35 |
| xAI | $225k | | 83 |
| Modal | $225k | | 38 |
| Insitro | $224k | | 13 |
| Baseten | $222k | | 100 |
| Glean | $222k | | 101 |
| Abridge | $220k | | 41 |
| Observe.AI | $220k | | 4 |
| Reducto | $220k | | 28 |
| Together AI | $220k | | 39 |
| Midjourney | $218k | | 13 |
| Livekit | $218k | | 24 |
| Runway | $218k | | 3 |
| LangChain | $218k | | 70 |
| Labelbox | $218k | | 6 |
| Databricks | $216k | | 480 |
| Vercel | $216k | | 59 |
| LlamaIndex | $215k | | 3 |
| Hume AI | $215k | | 5 |
| Cartesia | $215k | | 23 |
| Recursion | $210k | | 7 |
| Notion | $210k | | 71 |
| HeyGen | $209k | | 12 |
| Descript | $205k | | 11 |
| Warp | $204k | | 4 |
| Cognition | $202k | | 13 |
| Tavily | $202k | | 7 |
| AssemblyAI | $200k | | 9 |
| Udio | $200k | | 5 |
| Deepgram | $200k | | 63 |
| Figure AI | $200k | | 53 |
| E2B | $200k | | 9 |
| Writer | $197k | | 34 |
| 1X | $195k | | 77 |
| Intercom | $189k | | 36 |
| Inceptive | $188k | | 10 |
| Nebius | $186k | | 97 |
| CoreWeave | $185k | | 287 |
| Crusoe | $183k | | 292 |
| Dataiku | $170k | | 4 |
| Extend | $166k | | 12 |
| PathAI | $162k | | 15 |
| Bland | $160k | | 11 |
| Parallel | $160k | | 16 |
| Nabla | $156k | | 6 |
| Palantir | $150k | | 201 |
| Handshake | $68k | | 8 |