Jobs
AI pay, from disclosed salary ranges
What U.S. AI companies and labs say they pay, summarized from the base-pay ranges in their own current job listings. Every figure is computed from the listings below it; nothing is estimated or self-reported.
All current AI listings with pay
9,690 of 15,057 current listings (64%) disclose a yearly U.S.-dollar base range, 7,815 of them only in the job description. Listings last checked Oct 19, 2026.
- Listings with disclosed pay
- 9,690
- of 15,057 current listings
- Median of range midpoints
- $195K
- a year, base pay
- Middle range (25th–75th percentile)
- $155K–$249K
- half of the midpoints fall here
- Remote
- 7%
- 634 of the listings with pay
Every listing with pay in the Jobs directory, highest pay first
Pay by role
Roles with at least 10 listings with pay, highest median first. Each role page lists the jobs behind its figures. Roles come from the title rules on each role’s jobs page.
| Role | Listings with pay | Median | Middle range | Remote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Account Executive | 138 | $320K | $244K–$345K | 19% |
| Research Scientist and Research Engineer | 198 | $281K | $224K–$413K | 12% |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 168 | $242K | $209K–$285K | 2% |
| Product Manager | 239 | $232K | $198K–$285K | 8% |
| Data Scientist and Analyst | 84 | $226K | $185K–$308K | 5% |
| Software Engineer | 1,549 | $222K | $193K–$281K | 3% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 177 | $216K | $168K–$230K | 7% |
| Solutions Engineer and Architect | 171 | $214K | $195K–$247K | 36% |
| Security Engineer | 180 | $205K | $173K–$266K | 16% |
| Technical Program Manager | 297 | $194K | $170K–$248K | 5% |
| Infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps Engineer | 403 | $193K | $168K–$223K | 4% |
| Product Designer | 177 | $193K | $167K–$230K | 6% |
| Hardware and Silicon Engineer | 349 | $193K | $164K–$227K | 1% |
| Data Center and Facilities | 116 | $191K | $130K–$256K | 22% |
| Recruiter | 116 | $170K | $156K–$193K | 7% |
Pay by employer
Employers with at least 10 listings with pay, highest median first. A median compares the roles each employer is hiring for right now, not what the same job pays at each one. Each employer’s jobs page has its own pay section.
| Employer | Listings with pay | Median | Middle range | Remote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | 519 | $350K | $293K–$403K | 12% |
| Thinking Machines Lab | 53 | $350K | $325K–$413K | 0% |
| OpenAI | 638 | $308K | $251K–$361K | 7% |
| Lambda | 87 | $289K | $223K–$350K | 9% |
| Luma AI | 14 | $288K | $204K–$294K | 36% |
| World Labs | 11 | $288K | $275K–$300K | 0% |
| Sierra | 97 | $285K | $230K–$310K | 23% |
| Biohub (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub) | 11 | $273K | $222K–$295K | 0% |
| Apptronik | 16 | $261K | $219K–$313K | 0% |
| Character.AI | 13 | $250K | $240K–$275K | 0% |
| Etched | 55 | $250K | $240K–$275K | 2% |
| TypeSafe AI | 14 | $248K | $224K–$248K | 0% |
| Perplexity | 113 | $245K | $195K–$313K | 5% |
| xAI (SpaceXSI) | 78 | $245K | $179K–$310K | 0% |
| Cloudflare | 117 | $243K | $192K–$285K | 1% |
| Waymo | 255 | $238K | $212K–$270K | 4% |
| Replit | 56 | $238K | $201K–$276K | 0% |
| Runway | 46 | $238K | $165K–$280K | 93% |
| Cartesia | 22 | $230K | $208K–$273K | 0% |
| Harvey | 239 | $230K | $180K–$270K | 5% |
| Together AI | 51 | $230K | $195K–$255K | 2% |
| Vercel | 61 | $230K | $195K–$260K | 11% |
| ServiceNow | 329 | $228K | $184K–$263K | 43% |
| Cerebras | 17 | $225K | $205K–$235K | 6% |
| d-Matrix | 35 | $225K | $218K–$240K | 14% |
| Fireworks AI | 76 | $225K | $195K–$265K | 12% |
| Modal | 37 | $225K | $200K–$265K | 5% |
| Prime Intellect | 27 | $225K | $225K–$250K | 52% |
| Anyscale | 14 | $224K | $220K–$251K | 0% |
| Baseten | 97 | $223K | $193K–$248K | 13% |
| Scale AI | 122 | $220K | $190K–$245K | 0% |
| Abridge | 42 | $219K | $171K–$239K | 19% |
| SambaNova | 45 | $218K | $186K–$245K | 11% |
| Glean | 72 | $217K | $187K–$241K | 4% |
| Databricks | 463 | $216K | $195K–$237K | 12% |
| Lightmatter | 50 | $216K | $187K–$244K | 0% |
| LanceDB | 13 | $215K | $215K–$215K | 15% |
| FAR.AI | 15 | $213K | $183K–$288K | 93% |
| LangChain | 45 | $208K | $190K–$220K | 24% |
| Profluent | 14 | $206K | $155K–$276K | 7% |
| Cognition | 10 | $201K | $159K–$268K | 0% |
| Figure | 54 | $200K | $175K–$225K | 0% |
| Skild AI | 29 | $200K | $200K–$200K | 3% |
| SiFive | 26 | $199K | $182K–$257K | 0% |
| Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) | 12 | $199K | $181K–$215K | 0% |
| Adobe | 179 | $198K | $165K–$230K | 7% |
| Writer | 34 | $197K | $178K–$232K | 0% |
| Agility Robotics | 76 | $193K | $155K–$240K | 26% |
| Lightning AI | 47 | $193K | $170K–$215K | 21% |
| CoreWeave | 298 | $185K | $148K–$212K | 2% |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | 94 | $184K | $154K–$221K | 0% |
| Crusoe | 292 | $183K | $150K–$233K | 2% |
| Red Hat | 25 | $173K | $134K–$216K | 72% |
| Anduril Industries | 2,186 | $170K | $150K–$193K | 1% |
| Intel | 398 | $167K | $126K–$206K | 0% |
| Arc Institute | 15 | $165K | $136K–$254K | 0% |
| Broadcom | 18 | $162K | $144K–$187K | 0% |
| U.S. Federal Government | 85 | $156K | $127K–$171K | 0% |
| SpaceX | 1,194 | $153K | $130K–$177K | 1% |
| University of Washington | 15 | $152K | $148K–$158K | 0% |
| Boston Dynamics | 76 | $151K | $123K–$171K | 5% |
| Palantir | 202 | $150K | $128K–$168K | 0% |
| The University of Texas at Austin | 113 | $104K | $67K–$139K | 0% |
| Cornell University | 81 | $90K | $75K–$110K | 15% |
How these figures are computed
Method. Only pay employers disclose: the yearly U.S.-dollar base range in the employer’s job feed, or, when the feed gives none, a range stated in the employer’s own job description (labelled “description”). Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range (a listing with several location tiers spans its lowest to its highest figure). The median and the middle range (25th to 75th percentile) are of those midpoints. Listings are the current ones in the Jobs directory’s default view: a U.S. location, or no location that can be read.
Left out. Hourly, monthly, open-ended (“up to”), and non-dollar pay; ranges the employer labels as on-target earnings (base plus commission), bonus, equity, or total compensation; ranges with a lower end under $10,000 or an upper end over $2,000,000 a year (not plausible as a yearly base). Nothing is converted, annualized, or estimated. A group is shown only with at least 10 listings with pay.
Caveats. Posted ranges are what employers advertise, not what anyone is paid; many employers (and many states) post wide ranges, and listings without pay are not represented. Sales roles often state on-target earnings (base plus commission) without labelling them, so their figures may include commission. Role groups come from title rules, not job descriptions. There is no trend yet: USASI keeps no history of listings or pay, so each figure is for the listings current when this page was built.
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