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 | Director of Product Management | $ 265,650 | 16 | Details |
| 3 | Head of AI | $ 242,500 | 24 | Details |
| 4 | Machine Learning Architect | $ 242,300 | 8 | Details |
| 5 | Engineering Manager | $ 241,000 | 294 | Details |
| 6 | GenAI Architect | $ 219,100 | 12 | Details |
| 7 | Head of Data | $ 211,942 | 88 | Details |
| 8 | AI Architect | $ 208,100 | 76 | Details |
| 9 | Product Designer | $ 205,700 | 84 | Details |
| 10 | Research Engineer | $ 200,000 | 391 | Details |
| 11 | Quant Options Trader | $ 200,000 | 10 | Details |
| 12 | Machine Learning Engineer | $ 190,000 | 1721 | Details |
| 13 | Software Architect | $ 187,600 | 20 | Details |
| 14 | Applied Scientist | $ 186,700 | 419 | Details |
| 15 | Data Infrastructure Engineer | $ 185,000 | 22 | Details |
| 16 | ML Scientist | $ 184,950 | 30 | Details |
| 17 | Solutions Architect | $ 184,500 | 276 | Details |
| 18 | Architect | $ 184,000 | 363 | Details |
| 19 | Enterprise Account Executive | $ 183,544 | 56 | Details |
| 20 | Technical Lead | $ 181,625 | 104 | Details |
| 21 | Software Engineer | $ 180,000 | 4859 | Details |
| 22 | Lead Engineer | $ 180,000 | 38 | Details |
| 23 | Backend Engineer | $ 180,000 | 106 | Details |
| 24 | Tech Lead | $ 179,500 | 22 | Details |
| 25 | Product Manager | $ 178,000 | 838 | Details |
| 26 | Research Scientist | $ 177,000 | 648 | Details |
| 27 | Member of Technical Staff | $ 176,550 | 100 | Details |
| 28 | Quantitative Developer | $ 175,000 | 22 | Details |
| 29 | Executive | $ 175,000 | 26 | Details |
| 30 | Algorithm Developer | $ 175,000 | 22 | Details |
| 31 | Quantitative Researcher | $ 174,000 | 40 | Details |
| 32 | Technical Architect | $ 173,850 | 10 | Details |
| 33 | Developer Advocate | $ 172,500 | 14 | Details |
| 34 | Principal Engineer | $ 171,357 | 14 | Details |
| 35 | Computer Vision Engineer | $ 170,600 | 34 | Details |
| 36 | AI Engineer | $ 170,000 | 687 | Details |
| 37 | AI Scientist | $ 169,900 | 40 | Details |
| 38 | Solutions Engineer | $ 168,450 | 148 | Details |
| 39 | Data Strategy Lead | $ 168,250 | 8 | Details |
| 40 | Principal Scientist | $ 167,500 | 6 | Details |
| 41 | Machine Learning Scientist | $ 166,600 | 103 | Details |
| 42 | Systems Engineer | $ 165,710 | 286 | Details |
| 43 | MLOps Engineer | $ 165,000 | 68 | Details |
| 44 | Data Quality Lead | $ 163,780 | 14 | Details |
| 45 | Lead Data Analysis | $ 163,400 | 6 | Details |
| 46 | Solution Engineer | $ 163,210 | 16 | Details |
| 47 | Data Management Lead | $ 163,000 | 26 | Details |
| 48 | AI Researcher | $ 163,000 | 36 | Details |
| 49 | Solution Architect | $ 162,200 | 106 | Details |
| 50 | Technical Recruiter | $ 160,500 | 6 | Details |
| 51 | Engineer | $ 160,000 | 3636 | Details |
| 52 | AI Lead | $ 160,000 | 12 | Details |
| 53 | Site Reliability Engineer | $ 160,000 | 138 | Details |
| 54 | Machine Learning Researcher | $ 160,000 | 246 | Details |
| 55 | Data Governance | $ 160,000 | 174 | Details |
| 56 | Platform Engineer | $ 159,050 | 168 | Details |
| 57 | Lead Analyst | $ 158,530 | 22 | Details |
| 58 | Manager | $ 158,400 | 2890 | Details |
| 59 | Data Analytics Lead | $ 158,275 | 28 | Details |
| 60 | Software Development Engineer | $ 158,200 | 240 | Details |
| 61 | Business Intelligence Lead | $ 155,850 | 8 | Details |
| 62 | Security Researcher | $ 155,300 | 18 | Details |
| 63 | Principal Statistical Programmer | $ 155,000 | 16 | Details |
| 64 | Business Intelligence | $ 153,700 | 34 | Details |
| 65 | Data Operations Manager | $ 150,425 | 10 | Details |
| 66 | Quantitative Analyst | $ 150,000 | 100 | Details |
| 67 | Account Executive | $ 150,000 | 50 | Details |
| 68 | Data Architect | $ 150,000 | 568 | Details |
| 69 | Analytics Lead | $ 148,600 | 32 | Details |
| 70 | Bioinformatics Scientist | $ 147,000 | 24 | Details |
| 71 | Machine Learning Lead | $ 146,479 | 6 | Details |
| 72 | Data Scientist | $ 146,000 | 4264 | Details |
| 73 | Data and Analytics Consultant | $ 145,000 | 8 | Details |
| 74 | System Engineer | $ 144,700 | 34 | Details |
| 75 | Data Product Manager | $ 144,000 | 92 | Details |
| 76 | Data Modeler | $ 143,755 | 38 | Details |
| 77 | Data Lead | $ 143,220 | 130 | Details |
| 78 | Full Stack Engineer | $ 143,125 | 54 | Details |
| 79 | Computational Scientist | $ 140,975 | 10 | Details |
| 80 | Data Analytics Business Partner | $ 140,000 | 10 | Details |
| 81 | Sales Engineer | $ 140,000 | 10 | Details |
| 82 | Analytics Engineer | $ 140,000 | 546 | Details |
| 83 | Data Engineer | $ 140,000 | 3782 | Details |
| 84 | Data Governance Manager | $ 139,874 | 17 | Details |
| 85 | Risk Analyst | $ 139,660 | 8 | Details |
| 86 | DataOps Engineer | $ 139,540 | 12 | Details |
| 87 | Computational Biologist | $ 139,000 | 20 | Details |
| 88 | AI Specialist | $ 138,360 | 26 | Details |
| 89 | Product Specialist | $ 138,000 | 16 | Details |
| 90 | Principal Researcher | $ 137,600 | 14 | Details |
| 91 | DevOps Engineer | $ 137,510 | 158 | Details |
| 92 | Data Operations | $ 137,500 | 42 | Details |
| 93 | Product Owner | $ 137,300 | 36 | Details |
| 94 | QA Engineer | $ 135,200 | 34 | Details |
| 95 | Technical Writer | $ 135,000 | 10 | Details |
| 96 | AI Developer | $ 135,000 | 67 | Details |
| 97 | Data Platform Engineer | $ 134,291 | 30 | Details |
| 98 | Cloud Developer | $ 134,000 | 8 | Details |
| 99 | Machine Learning Specialist | $ 133,719 | 10 | Details |
| 100 | Data Integration Engineer | $ 131,000 | 22 | Details |
| 101 | Automation Engineer | $ 130,625 | 12 | Details |
| 102 | Data Strategist | $ 130,134 | 28 | Details |
| 103 | Statistician | $ 130,000 | 37 | Details |
| 104 | Data Operations Engineer | $ 130,000 | 18 | Details |
| 105 | Data Product Owner | $ 129,700 | 58 | Details |
| 106 | Data Analytics Manager | $ 128,300 | 78 | Details |
| 107 | Copywriter | $ 127,500 | 8 | Details |
| 108 | Cloud Engineer | $ 126,100 | 68 | Details |
| 109 | Product Analyst | $ 125,856 | 84 | Details |
| 110 | Associate | $ 125,250 | 813 | Details |
| 111 | Data Governance Lead | $ 125,041 | 44 | Details |
| 112 | Data Team Lead | $ 125,000 | 18 | Details |
| 113 | Prompt Engineer | $ 125,000 | 26 | Details |
| 114 | Software Developer | $ 123,100 | 276 | Details |
| 115 | ETL Developer | $ 123,050 | 8 | Details |
| 116 | Business Intelligence Manager | $ 122,500 | 6 | Details |
| 117 | Java Developer | $ 122,500 | 6 | Details |
| 118 | Power BI Administrator | $ 122,477 | 6 | Details |
| 119 | AI Product Owner | $ 122,300 | 8 | Details |
| 120 | Business Intelligence Engineer | $ 121,400 | 212 | Details |
| 121 | BI Engineer | $ 120,700 | 42 | Details |
| 122 | Data Governance Engineer | $ 120,390 | 8 | Details |
| 123 | Developer | $ 120,000 | 380 | Details |
| 124 | Technical Support Engineer | $ 120,000 | 18 | Details |
| 125 | Tableau Developer | $ 120,000 | 6 | Details |
| 126 | Decision Scientist | $ 118,000 | 50 | Details |
| 127 | Data Analytics Specialist | $ 118,000 | 12 | Details |
| 128 | Data Consultant | $ 117,742 | 14 | Details |
| 129 | Data Integrator | $ 117,500 | 14 | Details |
| 130 | Consultant | $ 117,300 | 402 | Details |
| 131 | Data Developer | $ 117,000 | 44 | Details |
| 132 | Application Developer | $ 116,650 | 14 | Details |
| 133 | Data Visualization Engineer | $ 115,899 | 28 | Details |
| 134 | Statistical Programmer | $ 114,350 | 28 | Details |
| 135 | Full Stack Developer | $ 114,000 | 50 | Details |
| 136 | Data Analysis | $ 112,337 | 18 | Details |
| 137 | Business Analyst | $ 112,000 | 167 | Details |
| 138 | Data Visualization Developer | $ 110,600 | 10 | Details |
| 139 | Postdoctoral Researcher | $ 110,380 | 37 | Details |
| 140 | BI Developer | $ 109,464 | 62 | Details |
| 141 | Cloud Database Administrator | $ 107,750 | 6 | Details |
| 142 | Analyst | $ 107,120 | 1955 | Details |
| 143 | Business Intelligence Developer | $ 106,150 | 136 | Details |
| 144 | Data Visualization Analyst | $ 106,055 | 6 | Details |
| 145 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $ 105,000 | 109 | Details |
| 146 | Power BI Specialist | $ 105,000 | 8 | Details |
| 147 | Data Governance Analyst | $ 104,650 | 90 | Details |
| 148 | Business Intelligence Specialist | $ 104,550 | 6 | Details |
| 149 | Robotics Engineer | $ 103,500 | 26 | Details |
| 150 | Analytics Specialist | $ 101,953 | 22 | Details |
| 151 | Python Developer | $ 100,000 | 44 | Details |
| 152 | BI Analyst | $ 100,000 | 68 | Details |
| 153 | Power BI Developer | $ 100,000 | 44 | Details |
| 154 | Data Manager | $ 99,000 | 290 | Details |
| 155 | Technology Integrator | $ 98,650 | 6 | Details |
| 156 | Data Analyst | $ 97,000 | 3504 | Details |
| 157 | Data Quality Analyst | $ 96,680 | 46 | Details |
| 158 | Data Integration Specialist | $ 95,000 | 36 | Details |
| 159 | Data Visualization Specialist | $ 93,500 | 18 | Details |
| 160 | Data Management Associate | $ 92,500 | 16 | Details |
| 161 | Business Development Representative | $ 92,105 | 6 | Details |
| 162 | Data Management Analyst | $ 92,100 | 108 | Details |
| 163 | Master Data Management | $ 90,700 | 12 | Details |
| 164 | Data Governance Specialist | $ 90,400 | 30 | Details |
| 165 | Data Operations Analyst | $ 90,000 | 36 | Details |
| 166 | Data Management Specialist | $ 84,894 | 98 | Details |
| 167 | Database Administrator | $ 83,389 | 8 | Details |
| 168 | Actuarial Analyst | $ 82,350 | 8 | Details |
| 169 | Data Quality Specialist | $ 82,278 | 8 | Details |
| 170 | Power BI Expert | $ 82,104 | 6 | Details |
| 171 | Insight Analyst | $ 82,000 | 44 | Details |
| 172 | Data and Reporting Analyst | $ 81,950 | 18 | Details |
| 173 | Postdoctoral Fellow | $ 80,480 | 28 | Details |
| 174 | Bioinformatician | $ 80,389 | 22 | Details |
| 175 | Research Analyst | $ 80,300 | 85 | Details |
| 176 | Encounter Data Management Professional | $ 79,650 | 16 | Details |
| 177 | Data and Reporting Professional | $ 78,150 | 20 | Details |
| 178 | Data Visualization Designer | $ 75,500 | 8 | Details |
| 179 | Sales Development Representative | $ 70,000 | 10 | Details |
| 180 | Data Operations Specialist | $ 70,000 | 10 | Details |
| 181 | Power BI | $ 69,050 | 18 | Details |
| 182 | Data Specialist | $ 69,020 | 282 | Details |
| 183 | Data Reporting Analyst | $ 65,797 | 18 | Details |
| 184 | Research Associate | $ 65,248 | 98 | Details |
| 185 | Trainee | $ 62,000 | 6 | Details |
| 186 | Research Assistant | $ 60,000 | 43 | Details |
| 187 | Data Quality Engineer | $ 58,525 | 10 | Details |
| 188 | Stage | $ 21,473 | 18 | Details |
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