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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 Automation and Transformation roles tracked by ML/AI Work is $128,200 – $190,054/yr (USD), across 190 postings that disclose pay (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).

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AI Automation and Transformation roles

$128,200 – $190,054 median / yr (USD)
Advertised floor (salary min) — p25 / median / p75
$0p25 $87K · median $128K · p75 $152K$400K
Advertised ceiling (salary max) — p25 / median / p75
$0p25 $160K · median $190K · p75 $233K$400K

Figures in USD, the most common currency among the 190 disclosed-pay postings in this slice.

n=190 · as of 2026-07-28 · v2026.06 · methodology ↗

Salary distributionwithin AI Automation and Transformation roles

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

Most common advertised floor: $75K–$100K49 of 190 disclosed-pay postings.

Median floor by senioritywithin AI Automation and Transformation

Intern
$42K
Senior
$144K
Staff
$230K
Lead
$151K
Principal
$155K
Director
$160K
Executive
$219K
Unspecified
$100K

Staff-level postings advertise the highest median floor — $230,000 (n=5).

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 Automation and Transformation roles

Large Language Models (LLMs) tops skill pay in this slice — $142,800 median floor (n=84).

Remote vs onsitewithin AI Automation and Transformation roles

$125K
onsite median floor (n=141)
$135K
remote median floor (n=49)
$185K
onsite median ceiling
$193K (+4%)
remote median ceiling

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ML/AI Work, "AI & ML salary benchmarks — AI Automation and Transformation roles", dataset v2026.06, n=190, as of 2026-07-28. https://mlai.work/salaries