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Name: AI & ML salary benchmarks — AI Dev Tools and Full Stack roles
Creator: ML/AI Work

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 AI Dev Tools and Full Stack roles tracked by ML/AI Work is $114,400 – $154,000/yr (USD), across 13 postings that disclose pay (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).

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SpecializationCountrySeniority

AI Dev Tools and Full Stack roles

$114,400 – $154,000 median / yr (USD)

Advertised floor (salary min) — p25 / median / p75

$0p25 $100K · median $114K · p75 $133K$400K

Advertised ceiling (salary max) — p25 / median / p75

$0p25 $125K · median $154K · p75 $230K$400K

Figures in USD, the most common currency among the 13 disclosed-pay postings in this slice.

n=13 · as of 2026-06-11 · v2026.06 · methodology ↗

Salary distributionwithin AI Dev Tools and Full Stack 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 AI Dev Tools and Full Stack

Junior

$81K

Senior

$144K

Unspecified

$112K

Senior-level postings advertise the highest median floor — $144,000 (n=3).

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

80.9%

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 AI Dev Tools and Full Stack roles

$118K

onsite median floor (n=11)

$101K

remote median floor (n=2)

$154K

onsite median ceiling

$161K (+5%)

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 — AI Dev Tools and Full Stack roles", dataset v2026.06, n=13, as of 2026-06-11. https://mlai.work/salaries

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