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 | Director of Machine Learning | $ 296,000 | 6 | Details |
| 2 | Executive | $ 252,500 | 18 | Details |
| 3 | Machine Learning Architect | $ 248,500 | 6 | Details |
| 4 | Engineering Manager | $ 240,000 | 190 | Details |
| 5 | Product Designer | $ 224,500 | 42 | Details |
| 6 | Head of AI | $ 222,500 | 18 | Details |
| 7 | GenAI Architect | $ 219,100 | 12 | Details |
| 8 | Research Engineer | $ 207,750 | 252 | Details |
| 9 | Head of Data | $ 204,405 | 62 | Details |
| 10 | Quant Options Trader | $ 200,000 | 10 | Details |
| 11 | Solutions Architect | $ 189,600 | 154 | Details |
| 12 | AI Architect | $ 189,500 | 54 | Details |
| 13 | Software Architect | $ 187,600 | 14 | Details |
| 14 | Applied Scientist | $ 186,200 | 261 | Details |
| 15 | Machine Learning Engineer | $ 185,000 | 1103 | Details |
| 16 | Architect | $ 184,000 | 240 | Details |
| 17 | Enterprise Account Executive | $ 183,544 | 42 | Details |
| 18 | Product Manager | $ 180,000 | 522 | Details |
| 19 | Account Executive | $ 180,000 | 34 | Details |
| 20 | Software Engineer | $ 180,000 | 3033 | Details |
| 21 | Lead Engineer | $ 180,000 | 20 | Details |
| 22 | Backend Engineer | $ 177,215 | 66 | Details |
| 23 | Research Scientist | $ 177,000 | 424 | Details |
| 24 | Solutions Engineer | $ 177,000 | 88 | Details |
| 25 | Data Infrastructure Engineer | $ 176,780 | 16 | Details |
| 26 | Member of Technical Staff | $ 176,550 | 76 | Details |
| 27 | Data Analytics Lead | $ 176,500 | 14 | Details |
| 28 | AI Engineer | $ 175,000 | 390 | Details |
| 29 | Technical Lead | $ 175,000 | 62 | Details |
| 30 | Algorithm Developer | $ 175,000 | 20 | Details |
| 31 | Tech Lead | $ 174,300 | 10 | Details |
| 32 | Developer Advocate | $ 172,500 | 6 | Details |
| 33 | MLOps Engineer | $ 170,635 | 40 | Details |
| 34 | Data Quality Lead | $ 170,030 | 12 | Details |
| 35 | Machine Learning Scientist | $ 170,000 | 69 | Details |
| 36 | Data and Analytics Consultant | $ 170,000 | 6 | Details |
| 37 | Computer Vision Engineer | $ 170,000 | 22 | Details |
| 38 | Systems Engineer | $ 170,000 | 184 | Details |
| 39 | Solution Architect | $ 168,525 | 74 | Details |
| 40 | Principal Statistical Programmer | $ 167,700 | 8 | Details |
| 41 | Data Management Lead | $ 166,100 | 22 | Details |
| 42 | Quantitative Developer | $ 165,000 | 10 | Details |
| 43 | Quantitative Researcher | $ 165,000 | 20 | Details |
| 44 | Lead Data Analysis | $ 163,400 | 6 | Details |
| 45 | AI Researcher | $ 162,770 | 24 | Details |
| 46 | Machine Learning Researcher | $ 160,000 | 236 | Details |
| 47 | Engineer | $ 159,000 | 2258 | Details |
| 48 | AI Scientist | $ 158,763 | 20 | Details |
| 49 | Lead Analyst | $ 158,530 | 22 | Details |
| 50 | Manager | $ 158,500 | 1744 | Details |
| 51 | Site Reliability Engineer | $ 156,800 | 88 | Details |
| 52 | Security Researcher | $ 155,300 | 8 | Details |
| 53 | Software Development Engineer | $ 154,800 | 162 | Details |
| 54 | Machine Learning Specialist | $ 152,710 | 6 | Details |
| 55 | Risk Analyst | $ 151,600 | 6 | Details |
| 56 | Platform Engineer | $ 149,500 | 108 | Details |
| 57 | Data Architect | $ 147,319 | 354 | Details |
| 58 | Quantitative Analyst | $ 147,100 | 62 | Details |
| 59 | Data Governance | $ 146,450 | 102 | Details |
| 60 | Cloud Engineer | $ 146,375 | 40 | Details |
| 61 | Data Scientist | $ 145,000 | 2869 | Details |
| 62 | Data Product Manager | $ 145,000 | 50 | Details |
| 63 | Full Stack Engineer | $ 144,625 | 38 | Details |
| 64 | Data Modeler | $ 143,755 | 20 | Details |
| 65 | Data Lead | $ 143,220 | 86 | Details |
| 66 | Analytics Lead | $ 142,500 | 18 | Details |
| 67 | Computational Scientist | $ 140,975 | 10 | Details |
| 68 | Data Engineer | $ 140,000 | 2380 | Details |
| 69 | ML Scientist | $ 139,992 | 6 | Details |
| 70 | AI Specialist | $ 139,680 | 20 | Details |
| 71 | DataOps Engineer | $ 139,540 | 6 | Details |
| 72 | Analytics Engineer | $ 139,375 | 348 | Details |
| 73 | System Engineer | $ 138,500 | 18 | Details |
| 74 | DevOps Engineer | $ 137,860 | 94 | Details |
| 75 | Data Visualization Engineer | $ 137,850 | 18 | Details |
| 76 | Principal Researcher | $ 137,600 | 14 | Details |
| 77 | Business Intelligence | $ 136,777 | 12 | Details |
| 78 | Data Governance Lead | $ 136,219 | 34 | Details |
| 79 | Product Owner | $ 135,500 | 20 | Details |
| 80 | QA Engineer | $ 135,200 | 26 | Details |
| 81 | Statistician | $ 135,000 | 26 | Details |
| 82 | Data Operations Manager | $ 134,250 | 8 | Details |
| 83 | Computational Biologist | $ 133,000 | 12 | Details |
| 84 | Data Consultant | $ 133,000 | 6 | Details |
| 85 | Data Integration Engineer | $ 131,000 | 8 | Details |
| 86 | Data Governance Manager | $ 130,221 | 8 | Details |
| 87 | Data Operations | $ 130,000 | 26 | Details |
| 88 | Product Specialist | $ 128,650 | 6 | Details |
| 89 | Data Analytics Manager | $ 128,300 | 48 | Details |
| 90 | Bioinformatics Scientist | $ 127,850 | 16 | Details |
| 91 | Data Strategist | $ 127,084 | 16 | Details |
| 92 | Data Platform Engineer | $ 126,582 | 22 | Details |
| 93 | AI Developer | $ 125,000 | 39 | Details |
| 94 | Associate | $ 124,950 | 479 | Details |
| 95 | Data Product Owner | $ 124,250 | 40 | Details |
| 96 | Data Team Lead | $ 122,500 | 14 | Details |
| 97 | Business Intelligence Manager | $ 122,500 | 6 | Details |
| 98 | Data Integrator | $ 122,500 | 12 | Details |
| 99 | AI Product Owner | $ 122,300 | 8 | Details |
| 100 | Product Analyst | $ 122,013 | 48 | Details |
| 101 | Business Intelligence Engineer | $ 121,400 | 140 | Details |
| 102 | Application Developer | $ 120,100 | 12 | Details |
| 103 | BI Engineer | $ 120,000 | 32 | Details |
| 104 | Prompt Engineer | $ 118,600 | 14 | Details |
| 105 | Consultant | $ 118,100 | 248 | Details |
| 106 | Postdoctoral Researcher | $ 117,000 | 23 | Details |
| 107 | Developer | $ 116,500 | 256 | Details |
| 108 | Software Developer | $ 115,200 | 184 | Details |
| 109 | BI Analyst | $ 115,000 | 38 | Details |
| 110 | Decision Scientist | $ 114,620 | 40 | Details |
| 111 | Statistical Programmer | $ 114,350 | 20 | Details |
| 112 | Business Analyst | $ 113,840 | 87 | Details |
| 113 | Data Developer | $ 112,000 | 22 | Details |
| 114 | Full Stack Developer | $ 111,051 | 32 | Details |
| 115 | Data Visualization Developer | $ 110,000 | 8 | Details |
| 116 | BI Developer | $ 108,964 | 34 | Details |
| 117 | Analyst | $ 108,000 | 1155 | Details |
| 118 | Business Intelligence Developer | $ 106,654 | 84 | Details |
| 119 | Data Visualization Analyst | $ 106,055 | 6 | Details |
| 120 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $ 105,500 | 83 | Details |
| 121 | Data Governance Analyst | $ 105,035 | 62 | Details |
| 122 | Business Intelligence Specialist | $ 104,550 | 6 | Details |
| 123 | Technical Support Engineer | $ 104,000 | 8 | Details |
| 124 | Data Visualization Specialist | $ 104,000 | 10 | Details |
| 125 | Robotics Engineer | $ 103,500 | 20 | Details |
| 126 | Data Operations Engineer | $ 100,800 | 12 | Details |
| 127 | Power BI Developer | $ 100,050 | 30 | Details |
| 128 | Data Integration Specialist | $ 100,000 | 24 | Details |
| 129 | Technology Integrator | $ 98,650 | 6 | Details |
| 130 | Data Quality Analyst | $ 95,980 | 30 | Details |
| 131 | Data Analyst | $ 95,150 | 2176 | Details |
| 132 | Data Manager | $ 95,000 | 192 | Details |
| 133 | Python Developer | $ 95,000 | 26 | Details |
| 134 | Data Management Analyst | $ 93,000 | 66 | Details |
| 135 | Data Management Associate | $ 92,500 | 14 | Details |
| 136 | Master Data Management | $ 90,700 | 12 | Details |
| 137 | Analytics Specialist | $ 90,513 | 18 | Details |
| 138 | Data Operations Analyst | $ 90,000 | 22 | Details |
| 139 | Data Governance Specialist | $ 88,000 | 18 | Details |
| 140 | Insight Analyst | $ 86,600 | 34 | Details |
| 141 | Data Analytics Specialist | $ 85,150 | 8 | Details |
| 142 | Actuarial Analyst | $ 82,350 | 8 | Details |
| 143 | Data Quality Specialist | $ 82,278 | 8 | Details |
| 144 | Data Management Specialist | $ 82,245 | 56 | Details |
| 145 | Power BI Expert | $ 82,104 | 6 | Details |
| 146 | Data and Reporting Analyst | $ 81,950 | 18 | Details |
| 147 | Research Analyst | $ 80,000 | 57 | Details |
| 148 | Encounter Data Management Professional | $ 79,650 | 14 | Details |
| 149 | Data and Reporting Professional | $ 78,150 | 8 | Details |
| 150 | Postdoctoral Fellow | $ 76,794 | 14 | Details |
| 151 | Data Visualization Designer | $ 75,500 | 8 | Details |
| 152 | Power BI | $ 72,092 | 12 | Details |
| 153 | Research Associate | $ 72,000 | 64 | Details |
| 154 | Sales Development Representative | $ 70,000 | 8 | Details |
| 155 | Data Specialist | $ 66,500 | 168 | Details |
| 156 | Bioinformatician | $ 66,265 | 10 | Details |
| 157 | Data Reporting Analyst | $ 65,797 | 18 | Details |
| 158 | Research Assistant | $ 60,000 | 21 | Details |
| 159 | Stage | $ 20,841 | 10 | Details |
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