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 | $ 242,750 | 296 | Details |
| 3 | Head of AI | $ 239,750 | 14 | Details |
| 4 | Software Architect | $ 236,650 | 8 | Details |
| 5 | Machine Learning Model Engineer | $ 230,000 | 16 | Details |
| 6 | Head of Data | $ 227,500 | 104 | Details |
| 7 | Machine Learning Manager | $ 222,190 | 10 | Details |
| 8 | ML Infrastructure Engineer | $ 216,800 | 18 | Details |
| 9 | Machine Learning Platform Engineer | $ 207,250 | 16 | Details |
| 10 | Director of Machine Learning | $ 205,800 | 18 | Details |
| 11 | AI Product Manager | $ 204,500 | 26 | Details |
| 12 | Master Data Management | $ 200,402 | 6 | Details |
| 13 | Technical Lead | $ 195,600 | 48 | Details |
| 14 | AI Solution Architect | $ 195,523 | 10 | Details |
| 15 | Robotics Software Engineer | $ 193,000 | 12 | Details |
| 16 | AI Architect | $ 191,850 | 100 | Details |
| 17 | AI Scientist | $ 190,500 | 36 | Details |
| 18 | Machine Learning Engineer | $ 190,000 | 4131 | Details |
| 19 | Frontend Engineer | $ 190,000 | 12 | Details |
| 20 | Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer | $ 189,600 | 10 | Details |
| 21 | Prompt Engineer | $ 187,486 | 34 | Details |
| 22 | Research Scientist | $ 185,000 | 1798 | Details |
| 23 | Computer Vision Engineer | $ 185,000 | 57 | Details |
| 24 | Research Engineer | $ 184,300 | 758 | Details |
| 25 | Principal Application Delivery Consultant | $ 182,500 | 40 | Details |
| 26 | Infrastructure Engineer | $ 180,400 | 16 | Details |
| 27 | Software Engineer | $ 180,000 | 6593 | Details |
| 28 | Backend Engineer | $ 180,000 | 129 | Details |
| 29 | Site Reliability Engineer | $ 178,844 | 190 | Details |
| 30 | Data Infrastructure Engineer | $ 177,850 | 52 | Details |
| 31 | Solutions Architect | $ 176,400 | 310 | Details |
| 32 | Data Governance | $ 176,000 | 6 | Details |
| 33 | Machine Learning Modeler | $ 173,350 | 8 | Details |
| 34 | Lead Engineer | $ 172,850 | 30 | Details |
| 35 | Machine Learning Architect | $ 171,000 | 14 | Details |
| 36 | Solution Architect | $ 170,850 | 68 | Details |
| 37 | Product Manager | $ 170,650 | 820 | Details |
| 38 | Full Stack Engineer | $ 170,000 | 82 | Details |
| 39 | Platform Engineer | $ 169,500 | 150 | Details |
| 40 | Software Development Engineer | $ 168,500 | 280 | Details |
| 41 | Quantitative Researcher | $ 167,500 | 38 | Details |
| 42 | DataOps Engineer | $ 165,320 | 6 | Details |
| 43 | Data Analytics Lead | $ 165,000 | 73 | Details |
| 44 | Security Engineer | $ 165,000 | 56 | Details |
| 45 | Fullstack Engineer | $ 162,750 | 24 | Details |
| 46 | Machine Learning Scientist | $ 162,450 | 202 | Details |
| 47 | Systems Engineer | $ 160,000 | 248 | Details |
| 48 | MLOps Engineer | $ 160,000 | 68 | Details |
| 49 | Machine Learning Researcher | $ 160,000 | 406 | Details |
| 50 | AI Researcher | $ 160,000 | 34 | Details |
| 51 | Applied Scientist | $ 160,000 | 1152 | Details |
| 52 | Engineer | $ 160,000 | 3104 | Details |
| 53 | Principal Statistical Programmer | $ 159,750 | 34 | Details |
| 54 | NLP Engineer | $ 158,100 | 8 | Details |
| 55 | Member of Technical Staff | $ 156,300 | 20 | Details |
| 56 | Data Governance Lead | $ 156,250 | 34 | Details |
| 57 | Manager | $ 155,950 | 1900 | Details |
| 58 | Computational Biologist | $ 155,592 | 18 | Details |
| 59 | AI Developer | $ 155,000 | 61 | Details |
| 60 | Data Architect | $ 154,809 | 886 | Details |
| 61 | Data Scientist | $ 154,500 | 7895 | Details |
| 62 | Machine Learning Quality Engineer | $ 153,300 | 14 | Details |
| 63 | Data Product Manager | $ 152,500 | 118 | Details |
| 64 | AI Specialist | $ 151,850 | 44 | Details |
| 65 | Bioinformatics Scientist | $ 150,031 | 26 | Details |
| 66 | AI Engineer | $ 150,000 | 489 | Details |
| 67 | AI Lead | $ 149,200 | 11 | Details |
| 68 | AI Software Engineer | $ 149,020 | 11 | Details |
| 69 | Analytics Engineer | $ 148,250 | 730 | Details |
| 70 | Solutions Engineer | $ 145,904 | 144 | Details |
| 71 | Decision Scientist | $ 145,000 | 88 | Details |
| 72 | Data Governance Engineer | $ 144,450 | 14 | Details |
| 73 | Robotics Engineer | $ 143,500 | 56 | Details |
| 74 | Cloud Database Engineer | $ 140,712 | 26 | Details |
| 75 | Business Intelligence | $ 140,000 | 284 | Details |
| 76 | Data Operations Manager | $ 140,000 | 20 | Details |
| 77 | Data Engineer | $ 140,000 | 6132 | Details |
| 78 | QA Engineer | $ 138,150 | 14 | Details |
| 79 | Analytics Lead | $ 137,750 | 24 | Details |
| 80 | ETL Engineer | $ 137,000 | 5 | Details |
| 81 | DevOps Engineer | $ 136,750 | 178 | Details |
| 82 | Data Analytics Manager | $ 136,000 | 81 | Details |
| 83 | Data Quality Lead | $ 134,780 | 26 | Details |
| 84 | Business Intelligence Lead | $ 133,275 | 28 | Details |
| 85 | BI Engineer | $ 133,250 | 46 | Details |
| 86 | Data Visualization Engineer | $ 133,000 | 26 | Details |
| 87 | Data Strategist | $ 132,200 | 32 | Details |
| 88 | Cloud Engineer | $ 131,500 | 58 | Details |
| 89 | Product Designer | $ 130,000 | 23 | Details |
| 90 | Data Modeler | $ 130,000 | 86 | Details |
| 91 | Data Integration Engineer | $ 130,000 | 50 | Details |
| 92 | Data Operations Engineer | $ 129,300 | 22 | Details |
| 93 | Business Intelligence Manager | $ 128,750 | 28 | Details |
| 94 | Data Lead | $ 125,380 | 72 | Details |
| 95 | Data Team Lead | $ 125,000 | 18 | Details |
| 96 | Data Governance Manager | $ 124,000 | 21 | Details |
| 97 | Data Strategy Lead | $ 124,000 | 10 | Details |
| 98 | Cloud Database Administrator | $ 123,488 | 16 | Details |
| 99 | Statistical Programmer | $ 123,300 | 48 | Details |
| 100 | Machine Learning Developer | $ 122,400 | 28 | Details |
| 101 | Associate | $ 122,000 | 734 | Details |
| 102 | Data Integration Developer | $ 121,056 | 12 | Details |
| 103 | Product Analyst | $ 120,220 | 58 | Details |
| 104 | Bear Robotics | $ 120,000 | 10 | Details |
| 105 | ETL Developer | $ 120,000 | 20 | Details |
| 106 | Data Governance Analyst | $ 119,382 | 46 | Details |
| 107 | Data Analytics Developer | $ 119,076 | 6 | Details |
| 108 | Software Developer | $ 118,900 | 264 | Details |
| 109 | Artificial Intelligence Engineer | $ 118,850 | 18 | Details |
| 110 | Consultant | $ 118,350 | 342 | Details |
| 111 | Quantitative Analyst | $ 117,900 | 43 | Details |
| 112 | Technical Writer | $ 117,400 | 6 | Details |
| 113 | Full Stack Developer | $ 117,300 | 36 | Details |
| 114 | Statistician | $ 115,000 | 22 | Details |
| 115 | Data Quality Specialist | $ 113,795 | 14 | Details |
| 116 | Data Quality Manager | $ 113,630 | 14 | Details |
| 117 | Developer | $ 113,592 | 86 | Details |
| 118 | Data Governance Specialist | $ 113,205 | 36 | Details |
| 119 | Research Analyst | $ 112,924 | 260 | Details |
| 120 | Data Quality Engineer | $ 112,750 | 26 | Details |
| 121 | AI Product Owner | $ 110,000 | 8 | Details |
| 122 | Data Product Owner | $ 110,000 | 50 | Details |
| 123 | Business Analyst | $ 110,000 | 151 | Details |
| 124 | Python Developer | $ 110,000 | 32 | Details |
| 125 | Business Intelligence Engineer | $ 109,250 | 378 | Details |
| 126 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $ 107,682 | 331 | Details |
| 127 | Business Intelligence Developer | $ 105,267 | 196 | Details |
| 128 | Analyst | $ 104,235 | 995 | Details |
| 129 | Data Management Lead | $ 103,400 | 16 | Details |
| 130 | Data Analytics Specialist | $ 101,375 | 40 | Details |
| 131 | Business Intelligence Specialist | $ 101,284 | 8 | Details |
| 132 | Data Visualization Developer | $ 100,240 | 12 | Details |
| 133 | Marketing Analyst | $ 100,000 | 8 | Details |
| 134 | Data Developer | $ 100,000 | 56 | Details |
| 135 | Data Visualization Analyst | $ 100,000 | 31 | Details |
| 136 | Data Analyst | $ 100,000 | 4848 | Details |
| 137 | Data Visualization Specialist | $ 99,000 | 32 | Details |
| 138 | Data Manager | $ 96,100 | 370 | Details |
| 139 | Data Analytics Associate | $ 96,000 | 7 | Details |
| 140 | BI Analyst | $ 94,900 | 82 | Details |
| 141 | Analytics Specialist | $ 94,400 | 6 | Details |
| 142 | Data Integration Specialist | $ 93,750 | 30 | Details |
| 143 | Actuarial Analyst | $ 92,500 | 6 | Details |
| 144 | Data Management Analyst | $ 91,062 | 96 | Details |
| 145 | Data Quality Analyst | $ 91,062 | 55 | Details |
| 146 | BI Developer | $ 90,000 | 134 | Details |
| 147 | Data Integration Analyst | $ 90,000 | 6 | Details |
| 148 | Power BI Developer | $ 90,000 | 44 | Details |
| 149 | Data Operations Analyst | $ 90,000 | 50 | Details |
| 150 | Data Management Manager | $ 89,175 | 8 | Details |
| 151 | AI Research Scientist | $ 88,888 | 5 | Details |
| 152 | Data Management Consultant | $ 88,274 | 10 | Details |
| 153 | Data Operations Specialist | $ 88,000 | 28 | Details |
| 154 | Data Analytics Consultant | $ 83,250 | 28 | Details |
| 155 | Data Operations Associate | $ 77,500 | 18 | Details |
| 156 | Data and Reporting Professional | $ 76,500 | 6 | Details |
| 157 | Data Management Specialist | $ 75,000 | 64 | Details |
| 158 | Data Specialist | $ 75,000 | 288 | Details |
| 159 | Insight Analyst | $ 72,000 | 50 | Details |
| 160 | Encounter Data Management Professional | $ 69,800 | 26 | Details |
| 161 | Data Integrity Analyst | $ 69,683 | 12 | Details |
| 162 | Pricing Analyst | $ 66,762 | 6 | Details |
| 163 | Data Reporting Analyst | $ 65,100 | 42 | Details |
| 164 | Research Assistant | $ 62,000 | 24 | Details |
| 165 | Research Associate | $ 56,453 | 41 | Details |
| 166 | Clinical Data Operator | $ 36,000 | 6 | Details |
| 167 | Stage | $ 27,371 | 8 | Details |
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