The Global AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index for 2025 💰📊
See below our global salary index in 2025 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 2025 | n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Head of Applied AI | $ 281,500 | 8 | Details |
| 2 | AIRS Solutions Specialist | $ 263,250 | 6 | Details |
| 3 | Director of Product Management | $ 260,000 | 26 | Details |
| 4 | Enterprise Account Executive | $ 246,835 | 66 | Details |
| 5 | Engineering Manager | $ 245,550 | 478 | Details |
| 6 | Head of AI | $ 240,000 | 40 | Details |
| 7 | Head of Machine Learning | $ 236,000 | 8 | Details |
| 8 | Director of Machine Learning | $ 230,000 | 18 | Details |
| 9 | GenAI Architect | $ 219,100 | 12 | Details |
| 10 | Machine Learning Architect | $ 217,350 | 12 | Details |
| 11 | Quant Options Trader | $ 200,000 | 10 | Details |
| 12 | Tech Lead | $ 200,000 | 50 | Details |
| 13 | Director | $ 199,000 | 538 | Details |
| 14 | Applied Scientist | $ 195,500 | 687 | Details |
| 15 | Head of Data | $ 194,927 | 156 | Details |
| 16 | Research Engineer | $ 190,000 | 622 | Details |
| 17 | Product Designer | $ 190,000 | 144 | Details |
| 18 | Machine Learning Engineer | $ 190,000 | 2731 | Details |
| 19 | Software Architect | $ 188,200 | 52 | Details |
| 20 | AI Architect | $ 186,650 | 124 | Details |
| 21 | Solutions Architect | $ 186,000 | 478 | Details |
| 22 | ML Scientist | $ 184,950 | 40 | Details |
| 23 | Principal Scientist | $ 183,700 | 26 | Details |
| 24 | Technical Lead | $ 181,625 | 166 | Details |
| 25 | Business Intelligence | $ 180,250 | 62 | Details |
| 26 | Product Manager | $ 180,000 | 1384 | Details |
| 27 | Architect | $ 180,000 | 673 | Details |
| 28 | Lead Engineer | $ 180,000 | 60 | Details |
| 29 | Software Engineer | $ 180,000 | 8179 | Details |
| 30 | Research Scientist | $ 178,100 | 1035 | Details |
| 31 | Member of Technical Staff | $ 178,100 | 146 | Details |
| 32 | Economist | $ 177,952 | 14 | Details |
| 33 | AI Product Lead | $ 177,590 | 10 | Details |
| 34 | Backend Engineer | $ 177,215 | 204 | Details |
| 35 | Data Infrastructure Engineer | $ 176,780 | 34 | Details |
| 36 | AI Researcher | $ 175,000 | 56 | Details |
| 37 | Quantitative Researcher | $ 175,000 | 72 | Details |
| 38 | Quantitative Developer | $ 175,000 | 33 | Details |
| 39 | AI Lead | $ 174,169 | 20 | Details |
| 40 | Researcher | $ 172,500 | 136 | Details |
| 41 | Developer Advocate | $ 172,500 | 14 | Details |
| 42 | Technical Architect | $ 170,486 | 34 | Details |
| 43 | Machine Learning Scientist | $ 170,000 | 191 | Details |
| 44 | Solutions Engineer | $ 170,000 | 212 | Details |
| 45 | AI Engineer | $ 170,000 | 1189 | Details |
| 46 | Data Strategy Lead | $ 168,250 | 10 | Details |
| 47 | Algorithm Developer | $ 168,000 | 32 | Details |
| 48 | AI Scientist | $ 167,400 | 60 | Details |
| 49 | Lead Data Analysis | $ 163,400 | 6 | Details |
| 50 | Systems Engineer | $ 163,100 | 460 | Details |
| 51 | Platform Engineer | $ 162,510 | 304 | Details |
| 52 | Executive | $ 162,500 | 74 | Details |
| 53 | Computer Vision Engineer | $ 162,500 | 68 | Details |
| 54 | Site Reliability Engineer | $ 162,500 | 246 | Details |
| 55 | Solution Architect | $ 162,200 | 170 | Details |
| 56 | Actuary | $ 162,060 | 34 | Details |
| 57 | Big Data Developer | $ 160,290 | 8 | Details |
| 58 | Machine Learning Researcher | $ 160,000 | 256 | Details |
| 59 | MLOps Engineer | $ 160,000 | 87 | Details |
| 60 | AI Tech Lead | $ 160,000 | 5 | Details |
| 61 | Business Intelligence Lead | $ 160,000 | 14 | Details |
| 62 | Principal Statistical Programmer | $ 160,000 | 30 | Details |
| 63 | Software Development Engineer | $ 159,600 | 374 | Details |
| 64 | Engineer | $ 159,346 | 6186 | Details |
| 65 | Security Researcher | $ 159,000 | 34 | Details |
| 66 | Staff Engineer | $ 158,600 | 22 | Details |
| 67 | Lead Analyst | $ 158,530 | 22 | Details |
| 68 | Principal Engineer | $ 158,000 | 34 | Details |
| 69 | Principal Researcher | $ 157,000 | 24 | Details |
| 70 | Manager | $ 156,160 | 4769 | Details |
| 71 | Sales Engineer | $ 155,000 | 22 | Details |
| 72 | Data Governance | $ 155,000 | 276 | Details |
| 73 | Data Platform Engineer | $ 154,800 | 42 | Details |
| 74 | Analytics Lead | $ 154,300 | 70 | Details |
| 75 | Data Management Lead | $ 151,962 | 40 | Details |
| 76 | Data Analytics Lead | $ 151,400 | 48 | Details |
| 77 | Product Specialist | $ 151,250 | 26 | Details |
| 78 | Data Architect | $ 151,198 | 857 | Details |
| 79 | Account Executive | $ 150,000 | 87 | Details |
| 80 | DataOps Engineer | $ 149,880 | 22 | Details |
| 81 | Bioinformatics Scientist | $ 149,200 | 48 | Details |
| 82 | Full Stack Engineer | $ 148,500 | 122 | Details |
| 83 | Data Scientist | $ 148,000 | 6585 | Details |
| 84 | Data Operations Lead | $ 147,500 | 8 | Details |
| 85 | Analytics Manager | $ 147,400 | 10 | Details |
| 86 | Data Quality Lead | $ 147,000 | 24 | Details |
| 87 | Machine Learning Lead | $ 146,479 | 8 | Details |
| 88 | Data Operations Manager | $ 145,250 | 14 | Details |
| 89 | Data and Analytics Consultant | $ 145,000 | 8 | Details |
| 90 | Data Lead | $ 145,000 | 182 | Details |
| 91 | Data Product Manager | $ 144,500 | 156 | Details |
| 92 | Analytics Engineer | $ 144,000 | 869 | Details |
| 93 | Risk Analyst | $ 144,000 | 7 | Details |
| 94 | Power BI Administrator | $ 143,927 | 14 | Details |
| 95 | Quantitative Analyst | $ 143,100 | 152 | Details |
| 96 | Artificial Intelligence Engineer | $ 142,500 | 24 | Details |
| 97 | Web Developer | $ 142,000 | 9 | Details |
| 98 | Technical Recruiter | $ 141,000 | 18 | Details |
| 99 | System Engineer | $ 141,000 | 64 | Details |
| 100 | Computational Scientist | $ 140,975 | 16 | Details |
| 101 | Data Engineer | $ 140,920 | 6197 | Details |
| 102 | Decision Scientist | $ 140,570 | 68 | Details |
| 103 | Data Analytics Business Partner | $ 140,000 | 10 | Details |
| 104 | Data Governance Lead | $ 138,300 | 80 | Details |
| 105 | DevOps Engineer | $ 137,510 | 309 | Details |
| 106 | Product Owner | $ 137,300 | 116 | Details |
| 107 | Computational Biologist | $ 136,550 | 40 | Details |
| 108 | Technical Writer | $ 136,330 | 14 | Details |
| 109 | Automation Engineer | $ 135,075 | 32 | Details |
| 110 | Cloud Developer | $ 134,000 | 10 | Details |
| 111 | Data Product Owner | $ 131,050 | 102 | Details |
| 112 | Data Integration Engineer | $ 131,000 | 34 | Details |
| 113 | Solution Engineer | $ 130,900 | 84 | Details |
| 114 | Data Strategist | $ 130,134 | 64 | Details |
| 115 | Cloud Engineer | $ 130,000 | 122 | Details |
| 116 | Data Operations Engineer | $ 130,000 | 24 | Details |
| 117 | Data Modeler | $ 130,000 | 76 | Details |
| 118 | AI Developer | $ 130,000 | 107 | Details |
| 119 | QA Engineer | $ 130,000 | 59 | Details |
| 120 | AI Specialist | $ 128,460 | 46 | Details |
| 121 | Data Analysis | $ 128,400 | 62 | Details |
| 122 | Data Analytics Manager | $ 128,300 | 124 | Details |
| 123 | Machine Learning Specialist | $ 128,000 | 16 | Details |
| 124 | Data Governance Engineer | $ 127,400 | 10 | Details |
| 125 | Marketing Science Partner | $ 127,000 | 8 | Details |
| 126 | ETL Developer | $ 126,100 | 12 | Details |
| 127 | Data Operations | $ 126,000 | 50 | Details |
| 128 | Systems Administrator | $ 125,900 | 16 | Details |
| 129 | Analytics Specialist | $ 125,800 | 40 | Details |
| 130 | Database Administrator | $ 125,000 | 18 | Details |
| 131 | Software Developer | $ 125,000 | 416 | Details |
| 132 | Data Integrator | $ 125,000 | 18 | Details |
| 133 | Associate | $ 125,000 | 1329 | Details |
| 134 | Business Intelligence Engineer | $ 124,600 | 326 | Details |
| 135 | Product Analyst | $ 123,713 | 152 | Details |
| 136 | Java Developer | $ 122,500 | 14 | Details |
| 137 | Business Intelligence Manager | $ 122,500 | 6 | Details |
| 138 | AI Product Owner | $ 122,500 | 10 | Details |
| 139 | BI Engineer | $ 121,400 | 54 | Details |
| 140 | Full Stack Developer | $ 121,314 | 84 | Details |
| 141 | Developer | $ 120,000 | 778 | Details |
| 142 | Tableau Developer | $ 120,000 | 8 | Details |
| 143 | Statistician | $ 119,000 | 79 | Details |
| 144 | Data Governance Manager | $ 118,962 | 34 | Details |
| 145 | Statistical Programmer | $ 118,383 | 46 | Details |
| 146 | Machine Learning Developer | $ 117,600 | 6 | Details |
| 147 | Technical Support Engineer | $ 117,500 | 22 | Details |
| 148 | Prompt Engineer | $ 117,200 | 55 | Details |
| 149 | Data Reporter | $ 116,635 | 6 | Details |
| 150 | Technical Specialist | $ 115,600 | 18 | Details |
| 151 | Data Visualization Engineer | $ 114,600 | 52 | Details |
| 152 | Data Developer | $ 113,225 | 72 | Details |
| 153 | Data Team Lead | $ 112,500 | 26 | Details |
| 154 | Data Consultant | $ 112,000 | 30 | Details |
| 155 | Consultant | $ 111,100 | 814 | Details |
| 156 | Data Management | $ 110,683 | 94 | Details |
| 157 | Data Visualization Developer | $ 110,600 | 12 | Details |
| 158 | BI Analyst | $ 110,000 | 314 | Details |
| 159 | Cloud Database Administrator | $ 107,750 | 10 | Details |
| 160 | Business Analyst | $ 107,500 | 277 | Details |
| 161 | Business Intelligence Developer | $ 107,094 | 170 | Details |
| 162 | Analyst | $ 107,025 | 3447 | Details |
| 163 | Data Visualization Specialist | $ 106,968 | 28 | Details |
| 164 | BI Developer | $ 106,300 | 84 | Details |
| 165 | AI Governance Specialist | $ 106,087 | 6 | Details |
| 166 | Data Visualization Analyst | $ 106,055 | 6 | Details |
| 167 | Business Intelligence Specialist | $ 105,182 | 16 | Details |
| 168 | Power BI Specialist | $ 105,000 | 8 | Details |
| 169 | Data Governance Analyst | $ 104,650 | 124 | Details |
| 170 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $ 104,000 | 193 | Details |
| 171 | Robotics Engineer | $ 103,500 | 26 | Details |
| 172 | Application Developer | $ 101,820 | 28 | Details |
| 173 | Postdoctoral Researcher | $ 100,320 | 59 | Details |
| 174 | Power BI Developer | $ 100,050 | 84 | Details |
| 175 | Data Governance Specialist | $ 99,581 | 48 | Details |
| 176 | Data Analyst | $ 99,000 | 5851 | Details |
| 177 | Technology Integrator | $ 98,650 | 6 | Details |
| 178 | Python Developer | $ 98,000 | 70 | Details |
| 179 | Data Manager | $ 97,950 | 416 | Details |
| 180 | Data Quality Engineer | $ 96,750 | 30 | Details |
| 181 | Data Analytics Specialist | $ 96,437 | 30 | Details |
| 182 | Data Management Analyst | $ 95,973 | 218 | Details |
| 183 | Insight Analyst | $ 94,968 | 86 | Details |
| 184 | Data Quality Analyst | $ 94,856 | 74 | Details |
| 185 | Cloud Database Engineer | $ 93,353 | 6 | Details |
| 186 | Research Professional | $ 91,500 | 8 | Details |
| 187 | Data Integration Specialist | $ 91,500 | 40 | Details |
| 188 | Master Data Management | $ 90,700 | 12 | Details |
| 189 | Bioinformatician | $ 90,579 | 32 | Details |
| 190 | Copywriter | $ 90,000 | 15 | Details |
| 191 | Data Management Associate | $ 89,056 | 22 | Details |
| 192 | Data Operations Analyst | $ 87,100 | 60 | Details |
| 193 | Research Analyst | $ 85,000 | 97 | Details |
| 194 | Business Development Representative | $ 84,210 | 11 | Details |
| 195 | Actuarial Analyst | $ 82,350 | 8 | Details |
| 196 | Data Quality Specialist | $ 82,278 | 8 | Details |
| 197 | Data and Reporting Analyst | $ 81,950 | 18 | Details |
| 198 | Data Management Specialist | $ 81,725 | 162 | Details |
| 199 | Postdoctoral Fellow | $ 80,480 | 70 | Details |
| 200 | Encounter Data Management Professional | $ 79,650 | 20 | Details |
| 201 | Power BI Expert | $ 78,708 | 10 | Details |
| 202 | Data and Reporting Professional | $ 78,150 | 28 | Details |
| 203 | Data Governance Consultant | $ 75,789 | 6 | Details |
| 204 | Data Visualization Designer | $ 75,500 | 8 | Details |
| 205 | Technical Support Specialist | $ 75,000 | 10 | Details |
| 206 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | $ 75,000 | 6 | Details |
| 207 | Data Operations Specialist | $ 72,050 | 16 | Details |
| 208 | Data Specialist | $ 71,200 | 508 | Details |
| 209 | Sales Development Representative | $ 70,000 | 20 | Details |
| 210 | Power BI | $ 66,800 | 38 | Details |
| 211 | Research Associate | $ 66,667 | 160 | Details |
| 212 | Data Reporting Analyst | $ 65,797 | 18 | Details |
| 213 | Data Analist | $ 63,157 | 7 | Details |
| 214 | Research Specialist | $ 61,000 | 10 | Details |
| 215 | Trainee | $ 58,713 | 10 | Details |
| 216 | Research Assistant | $ 58,000 | 69 | Details |
| 217 | Backend Developer | $ 57,894 | 6 | Details |
| 218 | Data Integrity Specialist | $ 57,000 | 8 | Details |
| 219 | Clinical Aide | $ 35,857 | 6 | Details |
| 220 | QA Tutor Reviewer | $ 24,000 | 16 | Details |
| 221 | Stage | $ 21,473 | 18 | Details |
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