AI pay
Data Scientist and Analyst pay
Disclosed yearly base-pay ranges in current Data Scientist and Analyst listings at U.S. AI companies and labs, from the employers’ own job listings. 84 of 107 current listings (79%) disclose one; 43 of those appear only in the job description. Listings last checked Oct 19, 2026.
The figures
- Listings with disclosed pay
- 84
- of 107 current listings
- Median of range midpoints
- $226K
- a year, base pay
- Middle range (25th–75th percentile)
- $185K–$308K
- half of the midpoints fall here
- Remote
- 5%
- 4 of the listings with pay
Which titles count: A listing counts when its title contains “data scientist”, “data science”, “data analyst”, or “analytics engineer”. Directors and recruiters are left out. Matching is on the title only, not the job description, so listings with unusual titles may be missed.
All current Data Scientist and Analyst jobs, with or without pay
The listings behind these figures
| Job | Employer | Location | Yearly range | Midpoint | Pay from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success | OpenAI | San Francisco | $441,000–$515,000 | $478K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, B2B Strategy & Intelligence | OpenAI | San Francisco | $347,000–$510,000 | $429K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Ads Demand | OpenAI | San Francisco | $293,000–$515,000 | $404K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, FinEng | OpenAI | San Francisco | $293,000–$515,000 | $404K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth | OpenAI | San Francisco | $293,000–$515,000 | $404K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Cybersecurity | OpenAI | Remote +2 | $263,000–$515,000 | $389K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Core Experimentation | OpenAI | Seattle | $347,000–$385,000 | $366K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Preparedness | OpenAI | San Francisco | $345,000–$385,000 | $365K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, B2B Demand Generation, Growth & Measurement | OpenAI | San Francisco | $293,000–$385,000 | $339K | Feed |
| Senior Data Science Manager, Driving Quality | Waymo | Mountain View, California, USA | $298,000–$368,000 | $333K | Description |
| Data Scientist, GTM | Anthropic | New York City, NY +1 | $285,000–$380,000 | $333K | Description |
| Data Scientist, Policy | Anthropic | New York City, NY +2 | $285,000–$380,000 | $333K | Description |
| Data Scientist, Product | Anthropic | New York City, NY +2 | $285,000–$380,000 | $333K | Description |
| Data Scientist, Safeguards | Anthropic | New York City, NY +2 | $285,000–$380,000 | $333K | Description |
| Lead Data Scientist, Platform Product | Anthropic | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA +1 | $285,000–$380,000 | $333K | Description |
| Data Scientist, Real Estate & Workplace | OpenAI | Mountain View +1 | $266,000–$385,000 | $326K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Safety | OpenAI | San Francisco | $265,000–$380,000 | $323K | Feed |
| Analytics Engineer - X | xAI (SpaceXSI) | Palo Alto, CA | $180,000–$440,000 | $310K | Description |
| Data Science, Finance & Strategy | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | $270,000–$345,000 | $308K | Description |
| Data Scientist, Codex | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Financial Engineering | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Infrastructure | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Platform and B2B Products | OpenAI | San Francisco | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Product | OpenAI | San Francisco +1 | $230,000–$385,000 | $308K | Feed |
| Senior Staff Data Scientist, Robotics | Agility Robotics | Remote | $218,000–$340,000 | $279K | Description |
| Analytics Engineer, GTM | OpenAI | New York City +1 | $220,000–$335,000 | $278K | Feed |
| Staff Data Scientist, Monetization | Character.AI | New York, NY +1 | $250,000–$300,000 | $275K | Feed |
| Sr Staff/Staff Data Scientist, Imaging | Biohub (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub) | Redwood City, CA (Hybrid) | $214,000–$331,100 | $273K | Description |
| Senior Manager, Infrastructure Data Science | Databricks | San Francisco, California | $228,600–$314,250 | $271K | Description |
| Senior Manager, Infrastructure Data Science | Databricks | Mountain View, California | $228,600–$314,250 | $271K | Description |
| Staff Data Scientist | Waymo | Mountain View, California, USA +1 | $238,000–$302,000 | $270K | Description |
| Data Scientist, Enterprise | Replit | Foster City, CA | $210,000–$327,000 | $269K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Growth | Replit | Foster City, CA | $210,000–$327,000 | $269K | Feed |
| Staff Product Data Scientist, Infrastructure | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA +1 | $230,000–$284,000 | $257K | Description |
| Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer) | Perplexity | New York City +1 | $175,000–$330,000 | $253K | Feed |
| Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist) | Perplexity | San Francisco | $175,000–$330,000 | $253K | Feed |
| Principal Data Scientist, Detection | Cloudflare | Hybrid | $215,000–$270,000 | $243K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist, Simulation Capacity Optimization | Waymo | Mountain View, CA, USA | $213,000–$263,000 | $238K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist | Waymo | Mountain View, California, USA +1 | $204,000–$259,000 | $232K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist, Growth | Glean | San Francisco, CA | $200,000–$260,000 | $230K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist, Growth | Glean | Mountain View, CA | $200,000–$260,000 | $230K | Description |
| Staff Data Scientist | Databricks | San Francisco, California | $192,000–$260,000 | $226K | Description |
| Staff Data Scientist - Infrastructure | Databricks | Mountain View, California | $192,000–$260,000 | $226K | Description |
| Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety | Databricks | San Francisco, California | $192,000–$260,000 | $226K | Description |
| Data Scientist | Baseten | San Francisco | $185,000–$260,000 | $223K | Feed |
| Staff Analytics Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $191,000–$253,000 | $222K | Description |
| Analytics Engineer | Cartesia | *HQ - San Francisco, CA | $180,000–$250,000 | $215K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Marketing | Harvey | San Francisco | $170,000–$260,000 | $215K | Feed |
| Senior Analytics Engineer | CoreWeave | Washington D.C. / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA / New York, NY | $182,000–$242,000 | $212K | Description |
| Data Analytics Engineer | Fireworks AI | San Mateo | $180,000–$240,000 | $210K | Feed |
| Member of Data Science Staff | Abridge | SF Office | $195,000–$225,000 | $210K | Feed |
| Data Scientist, Product | Harvey | San Francisco | $155,000–$260,000 | $208K | Feed |
| Senior Data Analyst, Public Sector | Scale AI | Washington, DC | $184,000–$230,000 | $207K | Description |
| Data Scientist | Lightning AI | New York, New York, United States | $160,000–$245,000 | $203K | Description |
| Analytics Engineer | Modal | New York +2 | $150,000–$250,000 | $200K | Feed |
| People Research Data Scientist, AI Fairness & Bias | OpenAI | San Francisco | $170,000–$220,000 | $195K | Feed |
| Senior Analytics Engineer, Finance | Harvey | New York +1 | $155,000–$235,000 | $195K | Feed |
| Senior Analytics Engineer, Product | Harvey | New York +1 | $155,800–$233,600 | $195K | Feed |
| Data Scientist | Waymo | Mountain View, California, USA +1 | $170,000–$216,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Analytics Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Analytics Engineer, People Data | Anduril Industries | Boston, Massachusetts, United States +1 | $166,000–$220,000 | $193K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist, GTM Data Science | Adobe | San Francisco +1 | $133,100–$236,400 | $185K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist, ML— Fraud Prevention | Adobe | Austin +5 | $133,100–$236,400 | $185K | Description |
| Data Science Engineer | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Livermore, CA, United States | $146,340–$222,564 | $184K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist, Research Engineer | Crusoe | San Francisco, Ca - Us +1 | $166,000–$200,000 | $183K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist | Databricks | Mountain View, California +1 | $123,200–$218,000 | $171K | Description |
| Analytics Engineer, Hardware Test | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $146,000–$194,000 | $170K | Description |
| Supplier Quality Data Analytics Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, California, United States | $146,000–$194,000 | $170K | Description |
| Senior Data Analyst, Quality | Anduril Industries | Ashville, Ohio, United States | $143,000–$191,000 | $167K | Description |
| Senior Data Analyst, Quality | Anduril Industries | Atlanta, Georgia, United States | $143,000–$191,000 | $167K | Description |
| Data Scientist | U.S. Federal Government | Woodlawn, Maryland | $143,913–$187,093 | $166K | Feed |
| Data Scientist (Starlink) | SpaceX | Redmond, WA | $125,000–$200,000 | $163K | Description |
| Analytics Engineer | LangChain | Remote | $140,000–$180,000 | $160K | Description |
| Data Scientist (Data/AI Architect) | U.S. Federal Government | Washington, District of Columbia | $121,785–$197,200 | $159K | Feed |
| Data Scientist | Adobe | Lehi +1 | $109,000–$200,700 | $155K | Description |
| Data Scientist, Adobe.com | Adobe | San Francisco +1 | $109,000–$200,700 | $155K | Description |
| CX Data Analyst | Harvey | New York | $112,000–$168,000 | $140K | Feed |
| CX Data Analyst | Harvey | Remote | $112,000–$168,000 | $140K | Feed |
| CX Data Analyst | Harvey | San Francisco | $112,000–$168,000 | $140K | Feed |
| Data Science and Analytics - PhD Intern | Intel | US, Oregon, Hillsboro | $136,998–$137,002 | $137K | Description |
| Senior Data Scientist, SSC/S37 | U.S. Federal Government | Los Angeles, California | $104,349–$161,313 | $133K | Feed |
| Data Scientist | U.S. Federal Government | Billings, Montana +3 | $89,508–$154,280 | $122K | Feed |
| DATA SCIENTIST | U.S. Federal Government | Cleveland, Ohio +4 | $89,508–$121,502 | $106K | Feed |
| Data Scientist | U.S. Federal Government | Air Force Academy, Colorado +43 | $50,460–$93,549 | $72K | Feed |
All 84 listings with pay. Every listing with pay in the Jobs directory (the directory’s “shows pay” also includes hourly and other pay).
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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