The Global AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index for 2024 💰📊
See below our global salary index in 2024 for roles in the AI, ML, Data Science space based on internal data (survey submissions + jobs with open salaries). Salary data is in USD and recalculated at its average fx rate during the year for salaries entered in other currencies.
The data is processed and updated on a weekly basis so the rankings may change over time during the year. Want to play around with the dataset yourself? You can download the complete salary dataset here.
| # | Role | Median Salary in 2024 | n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Head of Machine Learning | $ 336,500 | 6 | Details |
| 2 | Engineering Manager | $ 240,000 | 346 | Details |
| 3 | Head of AI | $ 234,750 | 16 | Details |
| 4 | Machine Learning Model Engineer | $ 230,000 | 16 | Details |
| 5 | Head of Data | $ 225,000 | 127 | Details |
| 6 | Machine Learning Manager | $ 222,190 | 10 | Details |
| 7 | ML Infrastructure Engineer | $ 216,800 | 18 | Details |
| 8 | Quantitative Developer | $ 214,500 | 6 | Details |
| 9 | Software Architect | $ 212,950 | 10 | Details |
| 10 | Machine Learning Platform Engineer | $ 207,250 | 16 | Details |
| 11 | Director of Machine Learning | $ 205,800 | 18 | Details |
| 12 | AI Product Manager | $ 204,500 | 26 | Details |
| 13 | Tech Lead | $ 200,000 | 8 | Details |
| 14 | Technical Lead | $ 195,600 | 64 | Details |
| 15 | AI Solution Architect | $ 195,523 | 10 | Details |
| 16 | Robotics Software Engineer | $ 193,000 | 12 | Details |
| 17 | AI Scientist | $ 190,500 | 40 | Details |
| 18 | Frontend Engineer | $ 190,000 | 12 | Details |
| 19 | Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer | $ 189,600 | 10 | Details |
| 20 | Machine Learning Engineer | $ 189,000 | 4507 | Details |
| 21 | AI Architect | $ 186,850 | 128 | Details |
| 22 | Research Scientist | $ 184,300 | 1952 | Details |
| 23 | Computer Vision Engineer | $ 183,000 | 59 | Details |
| 24 | Principal Application Delivery Consultant | $ 182,500 | 40 | Details |
| 25 | Infrastructure Engineer | $ 180,400 | 16 | Details |
| 26 | Backend Engineer | $ 180,000 | 141 | Details |
| 27 | Software Engineer | $ 180,000 | 7650 | Details |
| 28 | Research Engineer | $ 180,000 | 873 | Details |
| 29 | Site Reliability Engineer | $ 177,688 | 226 | Details |
| 30 | Solutions Architect | $ 177,260 | 396 | Details |
| 31 | Member of Technical Staff | $ 176,600 | 36 | Details |
| 32 | Prompt Engineer | $ 176,480 | 36 | Details |
| 33 | Data Infrastructure Engineer | $ 175,800 | 56 | Details |
| 34 | Machine Learning Modeler | $ 173,350 | 8 | Details |
| 35 | Lead Engineer | $ 172,850 | 34 | Details |
| 36 | Machine Learning Architect | $ 171,000 | 16 | Details |
| 37 | Product Manager | $ 170,000 | 988 | Details |
| 38 | Solution Architect | $ 169,700 | 90 | Details |
| 39 | Software Development Engineer | $ 169,600 | 328 | Details |
| 40 | Platform Engineer | $ 166,560 | 216 | Details |
| 41 | DataOps Engineer | $ 165,320 | 6 | Details |
| 42 | Data Analytics Lead | $ 165,000 | 75 | Details |
| 43 | Security Engineer | $ 165,000 | 56 | Details |
| 44 | Systems Engineer | $ 163,000 | 306 | Details |
| 45 | Fullstack Engineer | $ 162,750 | 24 | Details |
| 46 | Lead Analyst | $ 162,500 | 30 | Details |
| 47 | Full Stack Engineer | $ 161,760 | 96 | Details |
| 48 | Engineer | $ 160,000 | 3930 | Details |
| 49 | Machine Learning Researcher | $ 160,000 | 416 | Details |
| 50 | MLOps Engineer | $ 160,000 | 78 | Details |
| 51 | Applied Scientist | $ 160,000 | 1290 | Details |
| 52 | Quantitative Researcher | $ 160,000 | 46 | Details |
| 53 | Principal Statistical Programmer | $ 159,750 | 34 | Details |
| 54 | Product Designer | $ 159,615 | 35 | Details |
| 55 | Machine Learning Scientist | $ 158,750 | 218 | Details |
| 56 | AI Researcher | $ 158,500 | 38 | Details |
| 57 | NLP Engineer | $ 158,100 | 8 | Details |
| 58 | AI Lead | $ 157,488 | 13 | Details |
| 59 | Data Governance Lead | $ 156,250 | 38 | Details |
| 60 | Architect | $ 156,223 | 50 | Details |
| 61 | Manager | $ 155,000 | 2398 | Details |
| 62 | AI Developer | $ 155,000 | 79 | Details |
| 63 | Data Architect | $ 154,889 | 998 | Details |
| 64 | Master Data Management | $ 154,602 | 8 | Details |
| 65 | Machine Learning Quality Engineer | $ 153,300 | 14 | Details |
| 66 | Data Scientist | $ 151,900 | 8805 | Details |
| 67 | AI Engineer | $ 150,200 | 543 | Details |
| 68 | Bioinformatics Scientist | $ 150,031 | 38 | Details |
| 69 | Data Product Manager | $ 150,000 | 144 | Details |
| 70 | AI Software Engineer | $ 149,020 | 11 | Details |
| 71 | Data Quality Lead | $ 147,100 | 30 | Details |
| 72 | Analytics Engineer | $ 147,000 | 840 | Details |
| 73 | Robotics Engineer | $ 147,000 | 62 | Details |
| 74 | Data Governance | $ 146,650 | 50 | Details |
| 75 | Solutions Engineer | $ 146,408 | 161 | Details |
| 76 | Computational Biologist | $ 145,400 | 28 | Details |
| 77 | Decision Scientist | $ 145,000 | 102 | Details |
| 78 | Data Operations Manager | $ 144,600 | 22 | Details |
| 79 | Data Governance Engineer | $ 144,450 | 14 | Details |
| 80 | Data Engineer | $ 140,000 | 6892 | Details |
| 81 | Business Intelligence | $ 139,000 | 288 | Details |
| 82 | Analytics Lead | $ 138,750 | 42 | Details |
| 83 | DevOps Engineer | $ 137,505 | 220 | Details |
| 84 | ETL Engineer | $ 137,000 | 5 | Details |
| 85 | Data Strategy Lead | $ 136,500 | 12 | Details |
| 86 | Data Analytics Manager | $ 135,800 | 91 | Details |
| 87 | QA Engineer | $ 134,150 | 26 | Details |
| 88 | Cloud Engineer | $ 130,000 | 76 | Details |
| 89 | Data Strategist | $ 130,000 | 34 | Details |
| 90 | Data Integration Engineer | $ 130,000 | 52 | Details |
| 91 | AI Specialist | $ 130,000 | 56 | Details |
| 92 | BI Engineer | $ 128,800 | 60 | Details |
| 93 | Business Intelligence Manager | $ 128,750 | 28 | Details |
| 94 | Data Modeler | $ 127,850 | 94 | Details |
| 95 | Statistical Programmer | $ 126,600 | 58 | Details |
| 96 | Cloud Database Engineer | $ 125,700 | 30 | Details |
| 97 | Data Lead | $ 125,380 | 90 | Details |
| 98 | Data Governance Manager | $ 124,000 | 25 | Details |
| 99 | Cloud Database Administrator | $ 123,488 | 18 | Details |
| 100 | Product Analyst | $ 123,050 | 78 | Details |
| 101 | Machine Learning Specialist | $ 121,880 | 6 | Details |
| 102 | Data Integration Developer | $ 121,056 | 12 | Details |
| 103 | Software Developer | $ 120,500 | 318 | Details |
| 104 | Bear Robotics | $ 120,000 | 10 | Details |
| 105 | Associate | $ 120,000 | 884 | Details |
| 106 | ETL Developer | $ 120,000 | 20 | Details |
| 107 | Business Intelligence Lead | $ 119,775 | 30 | Details |
| 108 | Data Analytics Developer | $ 119,076 | 8 | Details |
| 109 | Artificial Intelligence Engineer | $ 118,850 | 18 | Details |
| 110 | Consultant | $ 118,000 | 454 | Details |
| 111 | Quantitative Analyst | $ 117,900 | 49 | Details |
| 112 | Data Governance Analyst | $ 117,487 | 54 | Details |
| 113 | Full Stack Developer | $ 117,300 | 40 | Details |
| 114 | Developer | $ 115,000 | 180 | Details |
| 115 | Data Quality Specialist | $ 113,795 | 14 | Details |
| 116 | Data Quality Manager | $ 113,630 | 14 | Details |
| 117 | Data Quality Engineer | $ 112,750 | 28 | Details |
| 118 | Data Operations Engineer | $ 111,150 | 36 | Details |
| 119 | AI Product Owner | $ 110,000 | 12 | Details |
| 120 | Python Developer | $ 110,000 | 38 | Details |
| 121 | Data Product Owner | $ 110,000 | 60 | Details |
| 122 | Business Analyst | $ 110,000 | 183 | Details |
| 123 | Bioinformatician | $ 109,682 | 12 | Details |
| 124 | Business Intelligence Engineer | $ 109,250 | 408 | Details |
| 125 | Research Analyst | $ 108,577 | 284 | Details |
| 126 | Data Management Lead | $ 107,900 | 20 | Details |
| 127 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $ 106,100 | 367 | Details |
| 128 | Business Intelligence Developer | $ 105,000 | 208 | Details |
| 129 | Data Visualization Engineer | $ 104,250 | 34 | Details |
| 130 | Machine Learning Developer | $ 103,275 | 34 | Details |
| 131 | Analyst | $ 102,960 | 1329 | Details |
| 132 | Data Team Lead | $ 102,400 | 22 | Details |
| 133 | Data Analytics Specialist | $ 101,375 | 50 | Details |
| 134 | Business Intelligence Specialist | $ 101,284 | 10 | Details |
| 135 | Data Visualization Developer | $ 100,240 | 12 | Details |
| 136 | Marketing Analyst | $ 100,000 | 8 | Details |
| 137 | Data Visualization Analyst | $ 100,000 | 31 | Details |
| 138 | Data Developer | $ 100,000 | 68 | Details |
| 139 | Technical Writer | $ 100,000 | 15 | Details |
| 140 | Data Analyst | $ 99,200 | 5593 | Details |
| 141 | Data Visualization Specialist | $ 99,000 | 32 | Details |
| 142 | Technology Integrator | $ 98,650 | 6 | Details |
| 143 | Data Governance Specialist | $ 97,851 | 40 | Details |
| 144 | Data Analytics Associate | $ 96,000 | 7 | Details |
| 145 | Statistician | $ 95,329 | 38 | Details |
| 146 | Data Manager | $ 95,300 | 440 | Details |
| 147 | BI Analyst | $ 94,900 | 95 | Details |
| 148 | Data Integration Specialist | $ 93,750 | 30 | Details |
| 149 | Data Integration Analyst | $ 92,500 | 10 | Details |
| 150 | Actuarial Analyst | $ 92,500 | 6 | Details |
| 151 | Data Management Consultant | $ 91,548 | 12 | Details |
| 152 | Power BI Developer | $ 90,000 | 48 | Details |
| 153 | Data Quality Analyst | $ 90,000 | 67 | Details |
| 154 | BI Developer | $ 90,000 | 146 | Details |
| 155 | Data Management Manager | $ 89,175 | 8 | Details |
| 156 | Data Operations Analyst | $ 88,884 | 52 | Details |
| 157 | Analytics Specialist | $ 88,100 | 18 | Details |
| 158 | Data Management Analyst | $ 87,477 | 108 | Details |
| 159 | Data Operations Specialist | $ 84,000 | 30 | Details |
| 160 | Data Analytics Consultant | $ 83,250 | 32 | Details |
| 161 | AI Research Scientist | $ 77,777 | 6 | Details |
| 162 | Postdoctoral Fellow | $ 77,500 | 6 | Details |
| 163 | Data Operations Associate | $ 77,500 | 18 | Details |
| 164 | Data Management Associate | $ 77,000 | 6 | Details |
| 165 | Data and Reporting Professional | $ 76,500 | 8 | Details |
| 166 | Data Management Specialist | $ 75,401 | 86 | Details |
| 167 | Pricing Analyst | $ 75,000 | 14 | Details |
| 168 | Data Specialist | $ 73,000 | 350 | Details |
| 169 | Insight Analyst | $ 72,000 | 52 | Details |
| 170 | Data Reporting Analyst | $ 71,095 | 48 | Details |
| 171 | Encounter Data Management Professional | $ 69,800 | 28 | Details |
| 172 | Data Integrity Analyst | $ 69,683 | 12 | Details |
| 173 | Research Assistant | $ 62,000 | 38 | Details |
| 174 | Research Associate | $ 58,717 | 77 | Details |
| 175 | AI Data Scientist | $ 58,333 | 5 | Details |
| 176 | Clinical Data Operator | $ 36,000 | 8 | Details |
| 177 | Stage | $ 33,409 | 10 | Details |
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