NLP Engineer Salary

Based on 127 NLP listings with published compensation (341 total jobs)

$238k
Average
$82k
Low Posted
127
With Salary
$500k
High Posted
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NLP engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $82k to $500k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping NLP features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 127 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 341 total open NLP roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

senior
130 jobs
$221k avg
lead
91 jobs
$282k avg
mid
58 jobs
$170k avg
junior
38 jobs
$192k avg
principal
24 jobs
$334k avg

Top Paying Companies for NLP

NLP Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
61 jobs
$253k avg
Remote
21 jobs
$215k avg
London, UK
21 jobs
$262k avg
Remote (US)
20 jobs
$225k avg
New York, NY
19 jobs
$228k avg
Mountain View, CA
15 jobs
$247k avg
Palo Alto, CA
14 jobs
$282k avg
Seattle, WA
14 jobs
$200k avg
Bangalore, India
12 jobs
Hyderabad, India
9 jobs

How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. Average salary uses the midpoint of each published range. Experience-level and city-level figures use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level and location fields on each listing.

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