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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 Product and Adjacent roles tracked by ML/AI Work is $113,100 – $207,800/yr (USD), across 1,567 postings that disclose pay (ML/AI Work, dataset v2026.06).

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Product and Adjacent roles

$113,100 – $207,800 median / yr (USD)
Advertised floor (salary min) — p25 / median / p75
$0p25 $87K · median $113K · p75 $141K$400K
Advertised ceiling (salary max) — p25 / median / p75
$0p25 $180K · median $208K · p75 $241K$400K

Figures in USD, the most common currency among the 1,567 disclosed-pay postings in this slice.

n=1,567 · as of 2026-06-11 · v2026.06 · methodology ↗

Salary distributionwithin Product and Adjacent roles

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

Most common advertised floor: $100K–$125K458 of 1,567 disclosed-pay postings.

Median floor by senioritywithin Product and Adjacent

Intern
$61K
Junior
$71K
Senior
$113K
Staff
$200K
Lead
$124K
Principal
$157K
Director
$170K
Executive
$172K
Unspecified
$103K

Staff-level postings advertise the highest median floor — $200,000 (n=19).

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 Product and Adjacent roles

Computer Vision tops skill pay in this slice — $130,800 median floor (n=66).

Remote vs onsitewithin Product and Adjacent roles

$113K
onsite median floor (n=1,278)
$102K
remote median floor (n=289)
$208K
onsite median ceiling
$202K (-3%)
remote median ceiling

Remote postings advertise a comparable median floor but a 3% lower median ceiling than onsite ($202K vs $208K).

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.

Cite this

ML/AI Work, "AI & ML salary benchmarks — Product and Adjacent roles", dataset v2026.06, n=1567, as of 2026-06-11. https://mlai.work/salaries