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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 Knowledge Graph and Search roles tracked by ML/AI Work is $130,000 – $220,000/yr (USD), across 545 postings that disclose pay (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).
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Knowledge Graph and Search roles
Figures in USD, the most common currency among the 545 disclosed-pay postings in this slice.
n=545 · as of 2026-06-11 · v2026.06 · methodology ↗
Salary distributionwithin Knowledge Graph and Search roles
Most common advertised floor: $100K–$125K — 124 of 545 disclosed-pay postings.
Median floor by senioritywithin Knowledge Graph and Search
Principal-level postings advertise the highest median floor — $196,500 (n=27).
Median floor by specializationwithin all AI roles
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
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.
Top-paying skillswithin Knowledge Graph and Search roles
Apache Spark tops skill pay in this slice — $160,000 median floor (n=56).
Remote vs onsitewithin Knowledge Graph and Search roles
AI salary premium by seniorityAI vs non-AI postings · US · midpoint medians
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 — Knowledge Graph and Search roles", dataset v2026.06, n=545, as of 2026-06-11. https://mlai.work/salaries