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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 MLOps and Platform roles tracked by ML/AI Work is $134,500 – $228,075/yr (USD), across 2,239 postings that disclose pay (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).

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MLOps and Platform roles

$134,500 – $228,075 median / yr (USD)
Advertised floor (salary min) — p25 / median / p75
$0p25 $112K · median $135K · p75 $163K$400K
Advertised ceiling (salary max) — p25 / median / p75
$0p25 $194K · median $228K · p75 $280K$400K

Figures in USD, the most common currency among the 2,239 disclosed-pay postings in this slice.

n=2,239 · as of 2026-07-28 · v2026.06 · methodology ↗

Salary distributionwithin MLOps and Platform roles

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

Most common advertised floor: $125K–$150K494 of 2,239 disclosed-pay postings.

Median floor by senioritywithin MLOps and Platform

Intern
$67K
Junior
$75K
Senior
$141K
Staff
$180K
Lead
$189K
Principal
$157K
Director
$149K
Executive
$170K
Unspecified
$126K

Lead-level postings advertise the highest median floor — $189,200 (n=226).

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 MLOps and Platform roles

LLMOps tops skill pay in this slice — $155,600 median floor (n=333).

Remote vs onsitewithin MLOps and Platform roles

$135K
onsite median floor (n=1,790)
$132K
remote median floor (n=449)
$241K
onsite median ceiling
$200K (-17%)
remote median ceiling

Remote postings advertise a comparable median floor but a 17% lower median ceiling than onsite ($200K vs $241K).

Cite this

ML/AI Work, "AI & ML salary benchmarks — MLOps and Platform roles", dataset v2026.06, n=2239, as of 2026-07-28. https://mlai.work/salaries