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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 2026-06-11, the median advertised salary for AgentOps and Agent Platform roles tracked by ML/AI Work is $228,800 – $260,000/yr (USD), across 3 postings that disclose pay (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).

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AgentOps and Agent Platform roles

$228,800 – $260,000 median / yr (USD)
Advertised floor (salary min) — p25 / median / p75
$0p25 $190K · median $229K · p75 $234K$400K
Advertised ceiling (salary max) — p25 / median / p75
$0p25 $234K · median $260K · p75 $260K$400K

Figures in USD, the most common currency among the 3 disclosed-pay postings in this slice.

n=3 · as of 2026-06-11 · v2026.06 · methodology ↗

Salary distributionwithin AgentOps and Agent Platform roles

Fewer than 25 disclosed-pay postings in the selected slice — showing the distribution without the specialization filter.

$0$100K$200K$300K$400K+

Most common advertised floor: $125K–$150K — 4,510 of 20,880 disclosed-pay postings.

Median floor by senioritywithin AgentOps and Agent Platform

Lead
$229K
Principal
$239K
Unspecified
$152K

Principal-level postings advertise the highest median floor — $239,200 (n=1).

Median floor by specializationwithin all AI roles

AI Design and Conversation
$165K
AI Data and Training Ops
$160K
Domain Specializations
$150K
ML Systems and Inference
$148K
Machine Learning
$147K
AI Security
$145K
LLM Platform and Reliability
$144K
Research and Science
$143K
Architecture and Leadership
$143K
AI Safety and Evaluation
$141K
MLOps and Platform
$140K
Agentic AI
$135K

AI Design and Conversation pays the highest median floor ($165K); AI Governance Ethics Policy the lowest ($74K).

Pay transparency by countryshare of postings disclosing pay

United States
80.9%
Germany
0%
United Kingdom
0%
Netherlands
0%
Sweden
0%
Belgium
0%
Switzerland
0%
Ireland
0%
Austria
0%
Denmark
0%
Finland
0%
Norway
0%

Only United States postings disclose structured pay (80.9%); the other 11 markets tracked disclose none. The EU Pay Transparency Directive (2023/970) is expected to change this.

Remote vs onsitewithin AgentOps and Agent Platform roles

$152K
onsite median floor (n=1)
$234K
remote median floor (n=2)
$209K
onsite median ceiling
$260K (+25%)
remote median ceiling

AI salary premium by seniorityAI vs non-AI postings · US · midpoint medians

AI roles non-AI roles
Intern
$109K
$62K
+75%
Junior
$110K
$83K
+33%
Senior
$188K
$160K
+18%
Staff
$228K
$200K
+14%
Lead
$202K
$170K
+19%
Principal
$215K
$193K
+12%
Director
$233K
$200K
+16%
Executive
$233K
$225K
+3%

AI postings advertise a +27% median premium over non-AI postings in the same corpus — but the premium compresses with seniority: +75% at Intern level down to +3% at Executive level. The AI premium is an entry-level phenomenon.

Control group: non-AI postings collected by the same pipeline (US, USD, disclosed pay). Within-corpus comparison — one methodology on both sides. As of 2026-06-10.

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ML/AI Work, "AI & ML salary benchmarks — AgentOps and Agent Platform roles", dataset v2026.06, n=3, as of 2026-06-11. https://mlai.work/salaries

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