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 Director of Product Management $ 260,000 26 Details
3 Enterprise Account Executive $ 246,835 66 Details
4 Engineering Manager $ 244,550 460 Details
5 Machine Learning Architect $ 242,300 10 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 Quant Options Trader $ 200,000 10 Details
11 Tech Lead $ 200,000 46 Details
12 Product Designer $ 195,850 136 Details
13 Head of Data $ 194,927 146 Details
14 Director $ 194,800 464 Details
15 Applied Scientist $ 194,500 661 Details
16 Research Engineer $ 190,000 602 Details
17 Machine Learning Engineer $ 190,000 2637 Details
18 Software Architect $ 188,200 52 Details
19 Solutions Architect $ 186,000 452 Details
20 AI Architect $ 185,000 120 Details
21 ML Scientist $ 184,950 40 Details
22 Principal Scientist $ 183,700 24 Details
23 Technical Lead $ 180,475 158 Details
24 Architect $ 180,000 637 Details
25 Software Engineer $ 180,000 7838 Details
26 Lead Engineer $ 180,000 60 Details
27 Product Manager $ 178,945 1330 Details
28 Member of Technical Staff $ 178,100 140 Details
29 Economist $ 177,952 14 Details
30 AI Product Lead $ 177,590 10 Details
31 Backend Engineer $ 177,215 192 Details
32 Research Scientist $ 177,000 999 Details
33 Data Infrastructure Engineer $ 176,780 34 Details
34 Quantitative Developer $ 175,000 33 Details
35 AI Lead $ 174,169 20 Details
36 Quantitative Researcher $ 174,000 68 Details
37 Developer Advocate $ 172,500 14 Details
38 Researcher $ 172,500 128 Details
39 Solutions Engineer $ 170,000 212 Details
40 AI Engineer $ 170,000 1125 Details
41 AI Researcher $ 169,700 54 Details
42 Technical Architect $ 169,186 28 Details
43 Data Strategy Lead $ 168,250 10 Details
44 Algorithm Developer $ 168,000 32 Details
45 AI Scientist $ 167,400 56 Details
46 Business Intelligence $ 167,000 58 Details
47 Executive $ 166,000 72 Details
48 Lead Data Analysis $ 163,400 6 Details
49 Systems Engineer $ 163,200 440 Details
50 Platform Engineer $ 162,510 284 Details
51 Computer Vision Engineer $ 162,500 66 Details
52 Actuary $ 162,060 32 Details
53 Solution Architect $ 161,550 158 Details
54 Big Data Developer $ 160,290 8 Details
55 Business Intelligence Lead $ 160,000 14 Details
56 MLOps Engineer $ 160,000 84 Details
57 Machine Learning Researcher $ 160,000 256 Details
58 Principal Statistical Programmer $ 160,000 30 Details
59 Machine Learning Scientist $ 160,000 179 Details
60 AI Tech Lead $ 160,000 5 Details
61 Site Reliability Engineer $ 160,000 238 Details
62 Software Development Engineer $ 159,600 368 Details
63 Engineer $ 159,500 5928 Details
64 Security Researcher $ 159,000 34 Details
65 Lead Analyst $ 158,530 22 Details
66 Principal Engineer $ 158,000 26 Details
67 Principal Researcher $ 156,800 20 Details
68 Manager $ 156,160 4611 Details
69 Data Governance $ 155,000 270 Details
70 Technical Recruiter $ 155,000 16 Details
71 Sales Engineer $ 155,000 22 Details
72 Analytics Lead $ 155,000 68 Details
73 Data Platform Engineer $ 154,800 42 Details
74 Data Management Lead $ 151,962 40 Details
75 Data Analytics Lead $ 151,400 48 Details
76 Data Architect $ 151,198 829 Details
77 Account Executive $ 150,000 79 Details
78 Full Stack Engineer $ 150,000 112 Details
79 DataOps Engineer $ 149,880 22 Details
80 Bioinformatics Scientist $ 149,200 46 Details
81 Data Scientist $ 147,500 6389 Details
82 Data Operations Lead $ 147,500 8 Details
83 Data Quality Lead $ 147,000 22 Details
84 Machine Learning Lead $ 146,479 6 Details
85 Data Operations Manager $ 145,250 14 Details
86 Data and Analytics Consultant $ 145,000 8 Details
87 Data Lead $ 145,000 174 Details
88 Data Product Manager $ 144,500 150 Details
89 Risk Analyst $ 144,000 7 Details
90 Power BI Administrator $ 143,927 14 Details
91 Analytics Manager $ 143,487 6 Details
92 Analytics Engineer $ 143,400 843 Details
93 Quantitative Analyst $ 143,100 150 Details
94 Decision Scientist $ 142,820 64 Details
95 Product Specialist $ 142,550 24 Details
96 Web Developer $ 142,000 9 Details
97 Computational Scientist $ 140,975 16 Details
98 Data Engineer $ 140,920 5975 Details
99 System Engineer $ 140,500 62 Details
100 Staff Engineer $ 140,376 8 Details
101 Data Analytics Business Partner $ 140,000 10 Details
102 Product Owner $ 139,500 110 Details
103 Technical Specialist $ 138,050 14 Details
104 Automation Engineer $ 137,575 28 Details
105 Data Governance Lead $ 137,519 78 Details
106 DevOps Engineer $ 137,510 299 Details
107 Artificial Intelligence Engineer $ 137,500 22 Details
108 Technical Writer $ 136,330 14 Details
109 Data Integration Engineer $ 135,000 32 Details
110 Cloud Developer $ 134,000 10 Details
111 Computational Biologist $ 134,000 38 Details
112 Machine Learning Specialist $ 133,719 14 Details
113 Data Product Owner $ 131,050 100 Details
114 Solution Engineer $ 130,900 78 Details
115 Data Strategist $ 130,134 62 Details
116 AI Developer $ 130,000 107 Details
117 QA Engineer $ 130,000 55 Details
118 Data Operations Engineer $ 130,000 24 Details
119 Data Modeler $ 130,000 74 Details
120 Cloud Engineer $ 129,750 118 Details
121 AI Specialist $ 128,460 44 Details
122 Data Analysis $ 128,400 58 Details
123 Data Analytics Manager $ 128,300 120 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 48 Details
128 Systems Administrator $ 125,900 16 Details
129 Product Analyst $ 125,856 136 Details
130 Analytics Specialist $ 125,800 40 Details
131 Software Developer $ 125,000 408 Details
132 Associate $ 125,000 1271 Details
133 Data Team Lead $ 125,000 24 Details
134 Java Developer $ 125,000 12 Details
135 Database Administrator $ 125,000 18 Details
136 Data Governance Manager $ 124,600 32 Details
137 Full Stack Developer $ 124,064 76 Details
138 Business Intelligence Engineer $ 122,950 318 Details
139 AI Product Owner $ 122,500 10 Details
140 Business Intelligence Manager $ 122,500 6 Details
141 BI Engineer $ 121,400 54 Details
142 Developer $ 120,000 740 Details
143 Technical Support Engineer $ 120,000 20 Details
144 Tableau Developer $ 120,000 8 Details
145 Statistical Programmer $ 118,383 44 Details
146 Machine Learning Developer $ 117,600 6 Details
147 Data Integrator $ 117,500 14 Details
148 Prompt Engineer $ 117,200 53 Details
149 Data Reporter $ 116,635 6 Details
150 Statistician $ 116,000 75 Details
151 Data Visualization Engineer $ 114,600 50 Details
152 Data Consultant $ 112,000 30 Details
153 Consultant $ 111,100 782 Details
154 Data Developer $ 110,725 66 Details
155 Data Management $ 110,683 82 Details
156 Data Visualization Developer $ 110,600 12 Details
157 BI Analyst $ 110,000 198 Details
158 Cloud Database Administrator $ 107,750 10 Details
159 Business Analyst $ 107,400 271 Details
160 Business Intelligence Developer $ 107,094 170 Details
161 Analyst $ 106,495 3283 Details
162 BI Developer $ 106,300 82 Details
163 AI Governance Specialist $ 106,087 6 Details
164 Data Visualization Analyst $ 106,055 6 Details
165 Business Intelligence Specialist $ 105,182 16 Details
166 Power BI Specialist $ 105,000 8 Details
167 Data Governance Analyst $ 104,900 120 Details
168 Business Intelligence Analyst $ 104,600 185 Details
169 Data Visualization Specialist $ 104,000 26 Details
170 Robotics Engineer $ 103,500 26 Details
171 Data Analytics Specialist $ 103,259 26 Details
172 Application Developer $ 101,820 28 Details
173 Postdoctoral Researcher $ 100,320 59 Details
174 Power BI Developer $ 100,000 72 Details
175 Data Governance Specialist $ 99,581 48 Details
176 Technology Integrator $ 98,650 6 Details
177 Data Manager $ 98,500 400 Details
178 Data Analyst $ 97,722 5545 Details
179 Data Management Analyst $ 96,373 204 Details
180 Python Developer $ 95,500 68 Details
181 Data Quality Analyst $ 95,000 70 Details
182 Insight Analyst $ 94,936 84 Details
183 Cloud Database Engineer $ 93,353 6 Details
184 Research Professional $ 91,500 8 Details
185 Data Integration Specialist $ 91,500 40 Details
186 Power BI Expert $ 91,268 8 Details
187 Master Data Management $ 90,700 12 Details
188 Copywriter $ 90,000 15 Details
189 Data Management Associate $ 89,056 22 Details
190 Data Operations Analyst $ 87,100 60 Details
191 Bioinformatician $ 86,816 30 Details
192 Research Analyst $ 85,000 97 Details
193 Business Development Representative $ 84,210 11 Details
194 Data Quality Engineer $ 82,500 26 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 $ 81,725 156 Details
199 Postdoctoral Fellow $ 80,480 66 Details
200 Encounter Data Management Professional $ 79,650 20 Details
201 Data and Reporting Professional $ 78,150 26 Details
202 Data Governance Consultant $ 75,789 6 Details
203 Data Visualization Designer $ 75,500 8 Details
204 Postdoctoral Research Fellow $ 75,000 6 Details
205 Technical Support Specialist $ 75,000 10 Details
206 Data Operations Specialist $ 72,050 16 Details
207 Data Specialist $ 71,100 484 Details
208 Sales Development Representative $ 70,000 20 Details
209 Research Associate $ 67,667 154 Details
210 Power BI $ 66,800 38 Details
211 Research Specialist $ 66,000 8 Details
212 Data Reporting Analyst $ 65,797 18 Details
213 Data Analist $ 63,157 7 Details
214 Research Assistant $ 60,000 67 Details
215 Trainee $ 58,713 10 Details
216 Backend Developer $ 57,894 6 Details
217 Data Integrity Specialist $ 57,000 8 Details
218 Clinical Aide $ 35,857 6 Details
219 Stage $ 21,473 18 Details

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