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Median advertised pay for AI, ML, LLM and data-science roles — drill into a specialization, country or seniority and the numbers update from live postings.
As of 2026-07-28, the median advertised salary for AI & ML roles tracked by ML/AI Work is $140,000 – $230,000/yr (USD), across 24,596 postings that disclose pay (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).
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Figures in USD, the most common currency among the 24,596 disclosed-pay postings in this slice.
n=24,596 · as of 2026-07-28 · v2026.06 · methodology ↗
Salary distributionwithin AI & ML roles
Most common advertised floor: $125K–$150K — 4,870 of 24,596 disclosed-pay postings.
Median floor by senioritywithin all AI roles
Staff-level postings advertise the highest median floor — $184,700 (n=1,237).
Median floor by specializationwithin all AI roles
ML Systems and Inference pays the highest median floor ($159K); AI Safety and Evaluation the lowest ($105K).
Salary coverage by countryshare of postings with a salary range
United States leads salary coverage at 82.2%; 17 other markets are not yet covered.
Top-paying skillswithin AI & ML roles
NVIDIA NeMo tops skill pay in this slice — $197,300 median floor (n=267).
Remote vs onsitewithin AI & ML roles
Remote postings advertise a comparable median floor but a 14% lower median ceiling than onsite ($201K vs $235K).
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ML/AI Work, "AI & ML salary benchmarks", dataset v2026.06, n=24596, as of 2026-07-28. https://mlai.work/salaries