AI Salary Calculator

Real compensation data from 3056 AI job listings with published salaries. Updated daily.

$227k
Average Salary
across all AI roles
$214k
Median Salary
50th percentile
3056
Jobs with Salary
of 7753 total listings

Salary by Specialization

Top-paying AI skills ranked by average compensation. Click any skill to browse matching jobs.

Skill Avg P25 Median P75 Max Jobs
alignment $338k $250k $335k $402k $850k 230
pre-training $331k $261k $310k $384k $850k 62
research $285k $200k $249k $345k $850k 235
rust $281k $250k $265k $310k $445k 25
inference $279k $195k $250k $392k $492k 29
reinforcement-learning $273k $213k $243k $294k $850k 219
search $272k $203k $240k $300k $850k 238
legal $261k $198k $256k $278k $445k 21
infrastructure $259k $198k $250k $300k $445k 215
distributed-systems $255k $200k $231k $283k $675k 489
fine-tuning $254k $193k $241k $289k $675k 325
code-generation $253k $192k $228k $289k $790k 104
pytorch $246k $197k $231k $274k $675k 398
llm $245k $196k $229k $275k $850k 923
deep-learning $245k $200k $229k $270k $600k 300
diffusion-models $243k $210k $231k $270k $425k 29
machine-learning $242k $202k $232k $276k $675k 308
platform $237k $200k $227k $263k $445k 70
nlp $237k $191k $237k $274k $426k 102
mobile $236k $198k $215k $275k $362k 23

Salary by Experience Level

How experience affects AI compensation. Percentile ranges show the spread.

principal 195 jobs
$308k
median salary
P25: $247k Avg: $333k P75: $412k
lead 947 jobs
$256k
median salary
P25: $213k Avg: $258k P75: $298k
senior 1309 jobs
$210k
median salary
P25: $187k Avg: $218k P75: $240k
junior 128 jobs
$174k
median salary
P25: $155k Avg: $199k P75: $212k
mid 477 jobs
$160k
median salary
P25: $131k Avg: $152k P75: $184k

Salary by City

AI compensation varies significantly by location. All figures in USD.

City Average Median Jobs

Methodology

This data comes from 3056 active job listings that include published salary ranges. We calculate the midpoint of each range and aggregate across roles, levels, and locations. Data is sourced directly from company career pages via Ashby, Greenhouse, and Lever APIs and updated daily. Only jobs with explicitly listed compensation are included — no inferred or estimated salaries.

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