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 | 336 | 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 | Tech Lead | $ 207,500 | 6 | Details |
| 11 | Machine Learning Platform Engineer | $ 207,250 | 16 | Details |
| 12 | Director of Machine Learning | $ 205,800 | 18 | Details |
| 13 | AI Product Manager | $ 204,500 | 26 | Details |
| 14 | AI Solution Architect | $ 195,523 | 10 | Details |
| 15 | Robotics Software Engineer | $ 193,000 | 12 | Details |
| 16 | Technical Lead | $ 192,800 | 58 | Details |
| 17 | AI Architect | $ 191,850 | 124 | Details |
| 18 | AI Scientist | $ 190,500 | 40 | Details |
| 19 | Frontend Engineer | $ 190,000 | 12 | Details |
| 20 | Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer | $ 189,600 | 10 | Details |
| 21 | Machine Learning Engineer | $ 189,400 | 4423 | Details |
| 22 | Research Scientist | $ 184,300 | 1922 | 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 | 7424 | Details |
| 28 | Research Engineer | $ 180,000 | 841 | Details |
| 29 | Site Reliability Engineer | $ 178,844 | 222 | Details |
| 30 | Solutions Architect | $ 178,495 | 378 | Details |
| 31 | Member of Technical Staff | $ 176,600 | 36 | Details |
| 32 | Prompt Engineer | $ 176,480 | 36 | Details |
| 33 | Data Infrastructure Engineer | $ 175,800 | 54 | Details |
| 34 | Machine Learning Modeler | $ 173,350 | 8 | Details |
| 35 | Lead Engineer | $ 172,850 | 30 | Details |
| 36 | Machine Learning Architect | $ 171,000 | 16 | Details |
| 37 | Product Manager | $ 170,000 | 944 | Details |
| 38 | Software Development Engineer | $ 169,600 | 320 | Details |
| 39 | Solution Architect | $ 169,050 | 82 | Details |
| 40 | Platform Engineer | $ 167,430 | 214 | Details |
| 41 | DataOps Engineer | $ 165,320 | 6 | Details |
| 42 | Security Engineer | $ 165,000 | 56 | Details |
| 43 | Data Analytics Lead | $ 165,000 | 75 | Details |
| 44 | Full Stack Engineer | $ 163,880 | 90 | Details |
| 45 | Systems Engineer | $ 163,000 | 292 | Details |
| 46 | Fullstack Engineer | $ 162,750 | 24 | Details |
| 47 | Machine Learning Researcher | $ 160,000 | 410 | Details |
| 48 | Quantitative Researcher | $ 160,000 | 44 | Details |
| 49 | MLOps Engineer | $ 160,000 | 76 | Details |
| 50 | Applied Scientist | $ 160,000 | 1266 | Details |
| 51 | Engineer | $ 160,000 | 3694 | Details |
| 52 | Principal Statistical Programmer | $ 159,750 | 34 | Details |
| 53 | AI Researcher | $ 159,250 | 36 | Details |
| 54 | Machine Learning Scientist | $ 158,750 | 212 | Details |
| 55 | NLP Engineer | $ 158,100 | 8 | Details |
| 56 | AI Lead | $ 157,488 | 13 | Details |
| 57 | Lead Analyst | $ 156,100 | 24 | Details |
| 58 | Manager | $ 155,000 | 2274 | Details |
| 59 | AI Developer | $ 155,000 | 71 | Details |
| 60 | Data Architect | $ 154,980 | 972 | Details |
| 61 | Data Governance | $ 154,945 | 34 | Details |
| 62 | Master Data Management | $ 154,602 | 8 | Details |
| 63 | Machine Learning Quality Engineer | $ 153,300 | 14 | Details |
| 64 | Data Scientist | $ 152,000 | 8605 | Details |
| 65 | Data Governance Lead | $ 151,250 | 36 | Details |
| 66 | Data Product Manager | $ 150,500 | 140 | Details |
| 67 | AI Engineer | $ 150,200 | 533 | Details |
| 68 | AI Software Engineer | $ 149,020 | 11 | Details |
| 69 | Robotics Engineer | $ 148,500 | 60 | Details |
| 70 | Bioinformatics Scientist | $ 147,131 | 34 | Details |
| 71 | Analytics Engineer | $ 147,000 | 814 | Details |
| 72 | Solutions Engineer | $ 146,408 | 157 | Details |
| 73 | Computational Biologist | $ 145,400 | 24 | Details |
| 74 | Decision Scientist | $ 145,000 | 102 | Details |
| 75 | Data Governance Engineer | $ 144,450 | 14 | Details |
| 76 | Business Intelligence | $ 140,000 | 284 | Details |
| 77 | Data Operations Manager | $ 140,000 | 20 | Details |
| 78 | Data Engineer | $ 140,000 | 6730 | Details |
| 79 | Product Designer | $ 139,888 | 29 | Details |
| 80 | Analytics Lead | $ 137,750 | 36 | Details |
| 81 | DevOps Engineer | $ 137,250 | 210 | Details |
| 82 | ETL Engineer | $ 137,000 | 5 | Details |
| 83 | Data Analytics Manager | $ 136,000 | 85 | Details |
| 84 | Data Quality Lead | $ 134,780 | 28 | Details |
| 85 | QA Engineer | $ 134,150 | 26 | Details |
| 86 | Business Intelligence Lead | $ 133,275 | 28 | Details |
| 87 | BI Engineer | $ 133,250 | 54 | Details |
| 88 | Architect | $ 132,500 | 16 | Details |
| 89 | Cloud Engineer | $ 130,500 | 72 | Details |
| 90 | Data Strategist | $ 130,000 | 34 | Details |
| 91 | AI Specialist | $ 130,000 | 56 | Details |
| 92 | Data Integration Engineer | $ 130,000 | 52 | Details |
| 93 | Business Intelligence Manager | $ 128,750 | 28 | Details |
| 94 | Data Modeler | $ 127,850 | 90 | Details |
| 95 | Statistical Programmer | $ 126,600 | 58 | Details |
| 96 | Cloud Database Engineer | $ 125,700 | 30 | Details |
| 97 | Data Lead | $ 125,380 | 86 | Details |
| 98 | Data Strategy Lead | $ 124,000 | 10 | Details |
| 99 | Data Governance Manager | $ 124,000 | 25 | Details |
| 100 | Cloud Database Administrator | $ 123,488 | 18 | Details |
| 101 | Machine Learning Specialist | $ 121,880 | 6 | Details |
| 102 | Software Developer | $ 121,600 | 310 | Details |
| 103 | Data Integration Developer | $ 121,056 | 12 | Details |
| 104 | Product Analyst | $ 120,220 | 74 | Details |
| 105 | Bear Robotics | $ 120,000 | 10 | Details |
| 106 | ETL Developer | $ 120,000 | 20 | Details |
| 107 | Associate | $ 120,000 | 852 | Details |
| 108 | Data Analytics Developer | $ 119,076 | 6 | Details |
| 109 | Artificial Intelligence Engineer | $ 118,850 | 18 | Details |
| 110 | Consultant | $ 118,200 | 426 | Details |
| 111 | Quantitative Analyst | $ 117,900 | 47 | Details |
| 112 | Full Stack Developer | $ 117,300 | 38 | Details |
| 113 | Data Governance Analyst | $ 116,516 | 52 | Details |
| 114 | Data Team Lead | $ 114,650 | 20 | 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 | Research Analyst | $ 112,000 | 276 | Details |
| 119 | Business Intelligence Engineer | $ 111,750 | 402 | Details |
| 120 | Data Operations Engineer | $ 111,150 | 34 | Details |
| 121 | Developer | $ 110,525 | 160 | Details |
| 122 | Python Developer | $ 110,000 | 36 | Details |
| 123 | AI Product Owner | $ 110,000 | 12 | Details |
| 124 | Business Analyst | $ 110,000 | 181 | Details |
| 125 | Data Product Owner | $ 110,000 | 58 | Details |
| 126 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $ 106,400 | 361 | Details |
| 127 | Business Intelligence Developer | $ 105,267 | 202 | Details |
| 128 | Machine Learning Developer | $ 105,164 | 32 | Details |
| 129 | Data Visualization Engineer | $ 104,250 | 34 | Details |
| 130 | Analyst | $ 103,400 | 1235 | Details |
| 131 | Data Management Lead | $ 103,400 | 16 | Details |
| 132 | Bioinformatician | $ 102,701 | 10 | Details |
| 133 | Data Analytics Specialist | $ 101,375 | 46 | Details |
| 134 | Business Intelligence Specialist | $ 101,284 | 10 | Details |
| 135 | Data Visualization Developer | $ 100,240 | 12 | Details |
| 136 | Data Developer | $ 100,000 | 66 | Details |
| 137 | Marketing Analyst | $ 100,000 | 8 | Details |
| 138 | Data Visualization Analyst | $ 100,000 | 31 | Details |
| 139 | Technical Writer | $ 100,000 | 13 | Details |
| 140 | Data Analyst | $ 99,200 | 5399 | 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 | 418 | Details |
| 147 | BI Analyst | $ 94,900 | 91 | Details |
| 148 | Data Integration Specialist | $ 93,750 | 30 | Details |
| 149 | Actuarial Analyst | $ 92,500 | 6 | Details |
| 150 | Data Management Consultant | $ 91,548 | 12 | Details |
| 151 | Data Quality Analyst | $ 90,600 | 63 | Details |
| 152 | Power BI Developer | $ 90,000 | 46 | Details |
| 153 | BI Developer | $ 90,000 | 146 | Details |
| 154 | Data Management Manager | $ 89,175 | 8 | Details |
| 155 | Data Management Analyst | $ 89,000 | 106 | Details |
| 156 | Data Operations Analyst | $ 88,884 | 52 | Details |
| 157 | Analytics Specialist | $ 88,100 | 14 | Details |
| 158 | Data Operations Specialist | $ 84,000 | 30 | Details |
| 159 | Data Analytics Consultant | $ 83,250 | 30 | Details |
| 160 | Data Integration Analyst | $ 82,500 | 8 | Details |
| 161 | AI Research Scientist | $ 77,777 | 6 | Details |
| 162 | Data Operations Associate | $ 77,500 | 18 | Details |
| 163 | Data Management Associate | $ 77,000 | 6 | Details |
| 164 | Data and Reporting Professional | $ 76,500 | 6 | Details |
| 165 | Data Management Specialist | $ 75,000 | 72 | Details |
| 166 | Pricing Analyst | $ 73,012 | 12 | Details |
| 167 | Data Specialist | $ 73,000 | 334 | Details |
| 168 | Insight Analyst | $ 72,000 | 52 | Details |
| 169 | Data Reporting Analyst | $ 69,845 | 46 | Details |
| 170 | Encounter Data Management Professional | $ 69,800 | 28 | Details |
| 171 | Data Integrity Analyst | $ 69,683 | 12 | Details |
| 172 | Research Assistant | $ 62,500 | 36 | Details |
| 173 | Research Associate | $ 58,717 | 69 | Details |
| 174 | AI Data Scientist | $ 58,333 | 5 | Details |
| 175 | Clinical Data Operator | $ 36,000 | 8 | Details |
| 176 | Stage | $ 33,409 | 10 | Details |
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