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 | 28 | Details |
| 4 | Enterprise Account Executive | $ 246,835 | 66 | Details |
| 5 | Engineering Manager | $ 242,250 | 498 | Details |
| 6 | Head of AI | $ 239,000 | 42 | Details |
| 7 | Head of Machine Learning | $ 236,000 | 8 | Details |
| 8 | Director of Machine Learning | $ 230,000 | 20 | 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 | Director | $ 200,000 | 636 | Details |
| 13 | Tech Lead | $ 200,000 | 52 | Details |
| 14 | Head of Data | $ 195,400 | 158 | Details |
| 15 | Applied Scientist | $ 195,000 | 725 | Details |
| 16 | Economist | $ 193,187 | 16 | Details |
| 17 | Research Engineer | $ 190,000 | 632 | Details |
| 18 | Product Designer | $ 190,000 | 150 | Details |
| 19 | Machine Learning Engineer | $ 190,000 | 2857 | Details |
| 20 | Software Architect | $ 188,200 | 54 | Details |
| 21 | Solutions Architect | $ 186,350 | 506 | Details |
| 22 | ML Scientist | $ 184,950 | 42 | Details |
| 23 | AI Architect | $ 184,500 | 130 | Details |
| 24 | Principal Scientist | $ 183,700 | 30 | Details |
| 25 | Architect | $ 181,050 | 711 | Details |
| 26 | Technical Lead | $ 180,475 | 168 | Details |
| 27 | Business Intelligence | $ 180,250 | 62 | Details |
| 28 | Software Engineer | $ 180,000 | 8551 | Details |
| 29 | Research Scientist | $ 180,000 | 1081 | Details |
| 30 | Lead Engineer | $ 179,700 | 64 | Details |
| 31 | Product Manager | $ 179,100 | 1440 | Details |
| 32 | Member of Technical Staff | $ 178,100 | 152 | Details |
| 33 | AI Product Lead | $ 177,590 | 10 | Details |
| 34 | Backend Engineer | $ 177,215 | 214 | Details |
| 35 | Data Infrastructure Engineer | $ 176,780 | 34 | Details |
| 36 | Algorithm Developer | $ 175,000 | 34 | Details |
| 37 | Quantitative Developer | $ 175,000 | 33 | Details |
| 38 | AI Researcher | $ 175,000 | 60 | Details |
| 39 | Researcher | $ 175,000 | 146 | Details |
| 40 | Quantitative Researcher | $ 175,000 | 72 | Details |
| 41 | Machine Learning Scientist | $ 173,000 | 213 | Details |
| 42 | Developer Advocate | $ 172,500 | 14 | Details |
| 43 | Executive | $ 172,440 | 80 | Details |
| 44 | Principal Engineer | $ 171,050 | 44 | Details |
| 45 | Technical Architect | $ 170,486 | 36 | Details |
| 46 | Solutions Engineer | $ 170,000 | 220 | Details |
| 47 | AI Scientist | $ 169,900 | 62 | Details |
| 48 | AI Engineer | $ 169,900 | 1260 | Details |
| 49 | Staff Engineer | $ 169,500 | 34 | Details |
| 50 | AI Lead | $ 165,753 | 22 | Details |
| 51 | Site Reliability Engineer | $ 164,431 | 254 | Details |
| 52 | Platform Engineer | $ 163,710 | 316 | Details |
| 53 | Lead Data Analysis | $ 163,400 | 6 | Details |
| 54 | Systems Engineer | $ 163,100 | 476 | Details |
| 55 | Computer Vision Engineer | $ 162,500 | 70 | Details |
| 56 | AI Solutions Lead | $ 162,350 | 6 | Details |
| 57 | Solution Architect | $ 161,550 | 182 | Details |
| 58 | Actuary | $ 160,373 | 38 | Details |
| 59 | Big Data Developer | $ 160,290 | 8 | Details |
| 60 | Principal Statistical Programmer | $ 160,000 | 30 | Details |
| 61 | MLOps Engineer | $ 160,000 | 91 | Details |
| 62 | Machine Learning Researcher | $ 160,000 | 260 | Details |
| 63 | Business Intelligence Lead | $ 160,000 | 14 | Details |
| 64 | Principal Researcher | $ 160,000 | 26 | Details |
| 65 | AI Tech Lead | $ 160,000 | 5 | Details |
| 66 | Software Development Engineer | $ 159,600 | 386 | Details |
| 67 | Security Researcher | $ 159,000 | 34 | Details |
| 68 | Lead Analyst | $ 158,530 | 22 | Details |
| 69 | Engineer | $ 158,227 | 6436 | Details |
| 70 | Manager | $ 156,000 | 4947 | Details |
| 71 | Analytics Lead | $ 155,000 | 76 | Details |
| 72 | Data Governance | $ 155,000 | 284 | Details |
| 73 | Data Analytics Lead | $ 153,400 | 54 | Details |
| 74 | Data Management Lead | $ 151,962 | 40 | Details |
| 75 | Product Specialist | $ 151,250 | 26 | Details |
| 76 | Data Strategy Lead | $ 150,750 | 12 | Details |
| 77 | Data Architect | $ 150,552 | 891 | Details |
| 78 | Account Executive | $ 150,000 | 101 | Details |
| 79 | Forward Deployed Engineer | $ 150,000 | 10 | Details |
| 80 | Full Stack Engineer | $ 150,000 | 126 | Details |
| 81 | Analytics Manager | $ 149,900 | 18 | Details |
| 82 | DataOps Engineer | $ 149,880 | 22 | Details |
| 83 | Bioinformatics Scientist | $ 149,200 | 48 | Details |
| 84 | Data Platform Engineer | $ 149,119 | 46 | Details |
| 85 | Data Scientist | $ 148,000 | 6806 | Details |
| 86 | Data Operations Lead | $ 147,500 | 8 | Details |
| 87 | Sales Engineer | $ 147,500 | 24 | Details |
| 88 | Data Quality Lead | $ 147,000 | 28 | Details |
| 89 | Machine Learning Lead | $ 146,479 | 8 | Details |
| 90 | Data Operations Manager | $ 145,250 | 14 | Details |
| 91 | Data and Analytics Consultant | $ 145,000 | 8 | Details |
| 92 | Data Product Manager | $ 145,000 | 162 | Details |
| 93 | Data Lead | $ 144,700 | 190 | Details |
| 94 | Risk Analyst | $ 144,000 | 7 | Details |
| 95 | Power BI Administrator | $ 143,927 | 14 | Details |
| 96 | Analytics Engineer | $ 143,700 | 923 | Details |
| 97 | Quantitative Analyst | $ 143,550 | 158 | Details |
| 98 | Web Developer | $ 142,000 | 9 | Details |
| 99 | Technical Recruiter | $ 141,000 | 18 | Details |
| 100 | System Engineer | $ 141,000 | 70 | Details |
| 101 | Data Engineer | $ 141,000 | 6475 | Details |
| 102 | Computational Scientist | $ 140,975 | 16 | Details |
| 103 | Decision Scientist | $ 140,570 | 70 | Details |
| 104 | Psychometrician | $ 140,300 | 6 | Details |
| 105 | Data Analytics Business Partner | $ 140,000 | 10 | Details |
| 106 | Automation Engineer | $ 137,575 | 34 | Details |
| 107 | Data Governance Lead | $ 137,519 | 84 | Details |
| 108 | DevOps Engineer | $ 137,510 | 309 | Details |
| 109 | Artificial Intelligence Engineer | $ 137,500 | 28 | Details |
| 110 | Product Owner | $ 137,300 | 122 | Details |
| 111 | Computational Biologist | $ 136,550 | 40 | Details |
| 112 | Technical Writer | $ 136,330 | 14 | Details |
| 113 | Cloud Developer | $ 134,000 | 10 | Details |
| 114 | Data Integration Engineer | $ 131,000 | 34 | Details |
| 115 | Solution Engineer | $ 130,900 | 92 | Details |
| 116 | Data Strategist | $ 130,134 | 64 | Details |
| 117 | Cloud Engineer | $ 130,000 | 122 | Details |
| 118 | AI Developer | $ 130,000 | 119 | Details |
| 119 | Data Modeler | $ 130,000 | 80 | Details |
| 120 | Data Operations Engineer | $ 130,000 | 24 | Details |
| 121 | QA Engineer | $ 130,000 | 59 | Details |
| 122 | Data Product Owner | $ 129,700 | 106 | Details |
| 123 | AI Specialist | $ 128,530 | 48 | Details |
| 124 | Data Analysis | $ 128,400 | 62 | Details |
| 125 | Data Analytics Manager | $ 128,300 | 128 | Details |
| 126 | Machine Learning Specialist | $ 128,000 | 16 | Details |
| 127 | Data Governance Engineer | $ 127,400 | 10 | Details |
| 128 | Solution Specialist | $ 127,000 | 6 | Details |
| 129 | Marketing Science Partner | $ 127,000 | 8 | Details |
| 130 | Full Stack Developer | $ 126,750 | 92 | Details |
| 131 | Data Steward | $ 126,270 | 6 | Details |
| 132 | ETL Developer | $ 126,100 | 14 | Details |
| 133 | Systems Administrator | $ 125,900 | 16 | Details |
| 134 | Analytics Specialist | $ 125,800 | 42 | Details |
| 135 | Data Operations | $ 125,450 | 52 | Details |
| 136 | Associate | $ 125,250 | 1371 | Details |
| 137 | Data Integrator | $ 125,000 | 18 | Details |
| 138 | Java Developer | $ 125,000 | 20 | Details |
| 139 | Database Administrator | $ 125,000 | 18 | Details |
| 140 | Business Intelligence Engineer | $ 124,600 | 336 | Details |
| 141 | Software Developer | $ 124,200 | 434 | Details |
| 142 | Product Analyst | $ 123,713 | 158 | Details |
| 143 | Business Intelligence Manager | $ 122,500 | 6 | Details |
| 144 | AI Product Owner | $ 122,500 | 10 | Details |
| 145 | BI Engineer | $ 121,400 | 54 | Details |
| 146 | Tableau Developer | $ 120,000 | 8 | Details |
| 147 | Developer | $ 120,000 | 802 | Details |
| 148 | Data Governance Manager | $ 118,962 | 36 | Details |
| 149 | Statistical Programmer | $ 118,500 | 52 | Details |
| 150 | Prompt Engineer | $ 117,200 | 63 | Details |
| 151 | Data Reporter | $ 116,635 | 6 | Details |
| 152 | Machine Learning Developer | $ 116,610 | 8 | Details |
| 153 | Statistician | $ 116,000 | 81 | Details |
| 154 | Technical Specialist | $ 115,600 | 18 | Details |
| 155 | Data Visualization Engineer | $ 114,600 | 52 | Details |
| 156 | Data Developer | $ 113,225 | 72 | Details |
| 157 | Data Team Lead | $ 112,500 | 26 | Details |
| 158 | Technical Support Engineer | $ 112,500 | 24 | Details |
| 159 | Data Consultant | $ 112,000 | 30 | Details |
| 160 | Consultant | $ 111,105 | 844 | Details |
| 161 | Data Management | $ 110,133 | 100 | Details |
| 162 | BI Analyst | $ 110,000 | 316 | Details |
| 163 | Cloud Database Administrator | $ 107,750 | 10 | Details |
| 164 | Business Analyst | $ 107,500 | 291 | Details |
| 165 | Analyst | $ 107,025 | 3617 | Details |
| 166 | Business Intelligence Developer | $ 106,590 | 180 | Details |
| 167 | BI Developer | $ 106,300 | 86 | Details |
| 168 | AI Governance Specialist | $ 106,087 | 6 | Details |
| 169 | Data Visualization Analyst | $ 106,055 | 6 | Details |
| 170 | Business Intelligence Specialist | $ 105,182 | 16 | Details |
| 171 | Data Governance Analyst | $ 104,650 | 130 | Details |
| 172 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $ 104,000 | 195 | Details |
| 173 | Robotics Engineer | $ 103,500 | 26 | Details |
| 174 | Data Visualization Developer | $ 102,500 | 16 | Details |
| 175 | Data Visualization Specialist | $ 102,000 | 32 | Details |
| 176 | Application Developer | $ 101,820 | 28 | Details |
| 177 | Power BI Developer | $ 100,599 | 88 | Details |
| 178 | Postdoctoral Researcher | $ 100,320 | 61 | Details |
| 179 | Data Analytics Specialist | $ 100,084 | 34 | Details |
| 180 | Data Manager | $ 99,787 | 434 | Details |
| 181 | Data Governance Specialist | $ 99,581 | 48 | Details |
| 182 | Data Analyst | $ 99,000 | 6067 | Details |
| 183 | Technology Integrator | $ 98,650 | 6 | Details |
| 184 | Python Developer | $ 98,000 | 70 | Details |
| 185 | Data Quality Engineer | $ 97,000 | 32 | Details |
| 186 | Data Management Analyst | $ 96,373 | 224 | Details |
| 187 | Insight Analyst | $ 94,968 | 88 | Details |
| 188 | Data Quality Analyst | $ 94,856 | 76 | Details |
| 189 | Research Fellow | $ 93,776 | 8 | Details |
| 190 | Cloud Database Engineer | $ 93,353 | 6 | Details |
| 191 | Data Integration Specialist | $ 91,500 | 40 | Details |
| 192 | Research Professional | $ 91,500 | 10 | Details |
| 193 | Master Data Management | $ 90,700 | 12 | Details |
| 194 | Copywriter | $ 90,000 | 15 | Details |
| 195 | Data Management Associate | $ 89,056 | 22 | Details |
| 196 | Data Operations Analyst | $ 87,100 | 60 | Details |
| 197 | Bioinformatician | $ 86,816 | 34 | Details |
| 198 | Research Analyst | $ 85,000 | 97 | Details |
| 199 | Business Development Representative | $ 84,210 | 13 | Details |
| 200 | Actuarial Analyst | $ 82,350 | 8 | Details |
| 201 | Data Quality Specialist | $ 82,278 | 8 | Details |
| 202 | Data and Reporting Analyst | $ 81,950 | 18 | Details |
| 203 | Data Management Specialist | $ 81,725 | 170 | Details |
| 204 | Postdoctoral Fellow | $ 80,480 | 72 | Details |
| 205 | Encounter Data Management Professional | $ 79,650 | 22 | Details |
| 206 | Power BI Specialist | $ 78,850 | 10 | Details |
| 207 | Power BI Expert | $ 78,708 | 10 | Details |
| 208 | Data and Reporting Professional | $ 78,150 | 32 | Details |
| 209 | Data Governance Consultant | $ 75,789 | 6 | Details |
| 210 | Data Visualization Designer | $ 75,500 | 8 | Details |
| 211 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | $ 75,000 | 6 | Details |
| 212 | Technical Support Specialist | $ 75,000 | 10 | Details |
| 213 | Data Operations Specialist | $ 72,050 | 22 | Details |
| 214 | Data Specialist | $ 71,300 | 526 | Details |
| 215 | Sales Development Representative | $ 70,000 | 20 | Details |
| 216 | Research Associate | $ 67,667 | 168 | Details |
| 217 | Power BI | $ 66,800 | 38 | Details |
| 218 | Data Reporting Analyst | $ 65,797 | 18 | Details |
| 219 | Data Analist | $ 63,157 | 9 | Details |
| 220 | Research Specialist | $ 61,000 | 10 | Details |
| 221 | Backend Developer | $ 57,894 | 6 | Details |
| 222 | Data Integrity Specialist | $ 57,000 | 10 | Details |
| 223 | Trainee | $ 56,000 | 12 | Details |
| 224 | Research Assistant | $ 55,000 | 75 | Details |
| 225 | Clinical Aide | $ 35,857 | 6 | Details |
| 226 | QA Tutor Reviewer | $ 24,000 | 16 | Details |
| 227 | Stage | $ 21,473 | 18 | Details |
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