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.
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| # | Role | Median Salary in 2025 | n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Director of Machine Learning | $ 296,000 | 6 | Details |
| 2 | Director of Product Management | $ 276,750 | 10 | Details |
| 3 | Executive | $ 252,500 | 18 | Details |
| 4 | Machine Learning Architect | $ 248,500 | 6 | Details |
| 5 | Engineering Manager | $ 240,000 | 218 | Details |
| 6 | Head of AI | $ 222,500 | 18 | Details |
| 7 | Product Designer | $ 219,500 | 54 | Details |
| 8 | GenAI Architect | $ 219,100 | 12 | Details |
| 9 | Research Engineer | $ 207,750 | 263 | Details |
| 10 | Head of Data | $ 204,405 | 66 | Details |
| 11 | Quant Options Trader | $ 200,000 | 10 | Details |
| 12 | AI Architect | $ 195,900 | 58 | Details |
| 13 | Solutions Architect | $ 190,000 | 170 | Details |
| 14 | Software Architect | $ 187,600 | 16 | Details |
| 15 | Machine Learning Engineer | $ 185,700 | 1211 | Details |
| 16 | Architect | $ 184,000 | 250 | Details |
| 17 | Enterprise Account Executive | $ 183,544 | 46 | Details |
| 18 | Software Engineer | $ 180,000 | 3349 | Details |
| 19 | Account Executive | $ 180,000 | 34 | Details |
| 20 | Lead Engineer | $ 180,000 | 20 | Details |
| 21 | Product Manager | $ 179,500 | 564 | Details |
| 22 | Tech Lead | $ 179,500 | 14 | Details |
| 23 | Backend Engineer | $ 178,607 | 72 | Details |
| 24 | Solutions Engineer | $ 177,000 | 90 | Details |
| 25 | Technical Lead | $ 177,000 | 68 | Details |
| 26 | Research Scientist | $ 177,000 | 466 | Details |
| 27 | Applied Scientist | $ 176,800 | 295 | Details |
| 28 | Data Infrastructure Engineer | $ 176,780 | 16 | Details |
| 29 | Member of Technical Staff | $ 176,550 | 80 | Details |
| 30 | AI Engineer | $ 175,800 | 429 | Details |
| 31 | ML Scientist | $ 175,550 | 14 | Details |
| 32 | Algorithm Developer | $ 175,000 | 20 | Details |
| 33 | Quantitative Developer | $ 175,000 | 12 | Details |
| 34 | Developer Advocate | $ 172,500 | 14 | Details |
| 35 | MLOps Engineer | $ 170,635 | 46 | Details |
| 36 | Data and Analytics Consultant | $ 170,000 | 6 | Details |
| 37 | Computer Vision Engineer | $ 170,000 | 22 | Details |
| 38 | Machine Learning Scientist | $ 170,000 | 71 | Details |
| 39 | Systems Engineer | $ 169,000 | 206 | Details |
| 40 | Solution Architect | $ 168,525 | 76 | Details |
| 41 | Data Analytics Lead | $ 168,500 | 16 | Details |
| 42 | Data Strategy Lead | $ 168,250 | 8 | Details |
| 43 | Principal Statistical Programmer | $ 167,700 | 8 | Details |
| 44 | Data Management Lead | $ 166,100 | 24 | Details |
| 45 | Quantitative Researcher | $ 165,000 | 24 | Details |
| 46 | Data Quality Lead | $ 163,780 | 14 | Details |
| 47 | Lead Data Analysis | $ 163,400 | 6 | Details |
| 48 | AI Researcher | $ 162,770 | 26 | Details |
| 49 | Business Intelligence | $ 162,500 | 18 | Details |
| 50 | Machine Learning Researcher | $ 160,000 | 238 | Details |
| 51 | Manager | $ 159,100 | 1940 | Details |
| 52 | Engineer | $ 159,000 | 2488 | Details |
| 53 | Lead Analyst | $ 158,530 | 22 | Details |
| 54 | Business Intelligence Lead | $ 155,850 | 6 | Details |
| 55 | Security Researcher | $ 155,300 | 10 | Details |
| 56 | Software Development Engineer | $ 154,800 | 182 | Details |
| 57 | AI Scientist | $ 153,200 | 24 | Details |
| 58 | Machine Learning Specialist | $ 152,710 | 6 | Details |
| 59 | Site Reliability Engineer | $ 151,800 | 96 | Details |
| 60 | Risk Analyst | $ 151,600 | 6 | Details |
| 61 | Solution Engineer | $ 151,500 | 8 | Details |
| 62 | Data Operations Manager | $ 150,425 | 10 | Details |
| 63 | Platform Engineer | $ 149,500 | 116 | Details |
| 64 | Data Architect | $ 149,000 | 400 | Details |
| 65 | Data Governance | $ 148,850 | 120 | Details |
| 66 | Cloud Engineer | $ 146,375 | 40 | Details |
| 67 | Data Scientist | $ 146,000 | 3161 | Details |
| 68 | Data Product Manager | $ 145,000 | 54 | Details |
| 69 | Quantitative Analyst | $ 144,200 | 68 | Details |
| 70 | Data Modeler | $ 143,755 | 22 | Details |
| 71 | Analytics Lead | $ 142,500 | 18 | Details |
| 72 | System Engineer | $ 141,950 | 20 | Details |
| 73 | Full Stack Engineer | $ 141,125 | 40 | Details |
| 74 | Computational Scientist | $ 140,975 | 10 | Details |
| 75 | Data Engineer | $ 140,000 | 2624 | Details |
| 76 | AI Specialist | $ 139,680 | 20 | Details |
| 77 | DataOps Engineer | $ 139,540 | 6 | Details |
| 78 | Principal Researcher | $ 137,600 | 14 | Details |
| 79 | DevOps Engineer | $ 137,510 | 106 | Details |
| 80 | Analytics Engineer | $ 137,371 | 372 | Details |
| 81 | Data Governance Lead | $ 136,219 | 36 | Details |
| 82 | Data Lead | $ 135,720 | 96 | Details |
| 83 | Product Owner | $ 135,500 | 20 | Details |
| 84 | QA Engineer | $ 135,200 | 26 | Details |
| 85 | Technical Writer | $ 135,000 | 8 | Details |
| 86 | Data Platform Engineer | $ 134,291 | 24 | Details |
| 87 | Bioinformatics Scientist | $ 133,350 | 18 | Details |
| 88 | Data Strategist | $ 133,050 | 24 | Details |
| 89 | Data Consultant | $ 133,000 | 6 | Details |
| 90 | Data Visualization Engineer | $ 131,500 | 20 | Details |
| 91 | Data Integration Engineer | $ 131,000 | 8 | Details |
| 92 | Data Operations | $ 130,450 | 28 | Details |
| 93 | Data Governance Manager | $ 130,221 | 8 | Details |
| 94 | Statistician | $ 130,000 | 27 | Details |
| 95 | AI Developer | $ 130,000 | 49 | Details |
| 96 | Data Product Owner | $ 129,700 | 48 | Details |
| 97 | Product Specialist | $ 128,650 | 12 | Details |
| 98 | Data Analytics Manager | $ 128,300 | 52 | Details |
| 99 | Associate | $ 124,400 | 533 | Details |
| 100 | Product Analyst | $ 122,726 | 56 | Details |
| 101 | Data Team Lead | $ 122,500 | 14 | Details |
| 102 | Computational Biologist | $ 122,500 | 14 | Details |
| 103 | Business Intelligence Manager | $ 122,500 | 6 | Details |
| 104 | Data Integrator | $ 122,500 | 12 | Details |
| 105 | AI Product Owner | $ 122,300 | 8 | Details |
| 106 | Business Intelligence Engineer | $ 121,400 | 152 | Details |
| 107 | Data Governance Engineer | $ 120,390 | 6 | Details |
| 108 | Application Developer | $ 120,100 | 12 | Details |
| 109 | BI Engineer | $ 120,000 | 32 | Details |
| 110 | Prompt Engineer | $ 118,600 | 16 | Details |
| 111 | Consultant | $ 118,100 | 276 | Details |
| 112 | Decision Scientist | $ 118,000 | 46 | Details |
| 113 | Postdoctoral Researcher | $ 117,000 | 23 | Details |
| 114 | Developer | $ 116,500 | 274 | Details |
| 115 | Software Developer | $ 115,200 | 198 | Details |
| 116 | Statistical Programmer | $ 114,350 | 22 | Details |
| 117 | Business Analyst | $ 113,840 | 91 | Details |
| 118 | BI Analyst | $ 112,700 | 42 | Details |
| 119 | Technical Support Engineer | $ 112,500 | 10 | Details |
| 120 | Data Developer | $ 112,000 | 22 | Details |
| 121 | Full Stack Developer | $ 111,051 | 36 | Details |
| 122 | Data Visualization Developer | $ 110,000 | 8 | Details |
| 123 | BI Developer | $ 109,464 | 38 | Details |
| 124 | Data Analysis | $ 108,640 | 6 | Details |
| 125 | Data Governance Analyst | $ 107,535 | 64 | Details |
| 126 | Analyst | $ 107,025 | 1279 | Details |
| 127 | Business Intelligence Developer | $ 106,654 | 92 | Details |
| 128 | Data Visualization Analyst | $ 106,055 | 6 | Details |
| 129 | Business Intelligence Analyst | $ 105,500 | 85 | Details |
| 130 | Business Intelligence Specialist | $ 104,550 | 6 | Details |
| 131 | Robotics Engineer | $ 103,500 | 24 | Details |
| 132 | Data Operations Engineer | $ 100,800 | 12 | Details |
| 133 | Power BI Developer | $ 100,050 | 30 | Details |
| 134 | Technology Integrator | $ 98,650 | 6 | Details |
| 135 | Data Integration Specialist | $ 97,500 | 26 | Details |
| 136 | Data Manager | $ 96,800 | 210 | Details |
| 137 | Data Quality Analyst | $ 96,480 | 32 | Details |
| 138 | Data Analyst | $ 95,300 | 2378 | Details |
| 139 | Data Management Analyst | $ 94,800 | 70 | Details |
| 140 | Analytics Specialist | $ 93,805 | 20 | Details |
| 141 | Data Visualization Specialist | $ 93,500 | 14 | Details |
| 142 | Data Management Associate | $ 92,500 | 14 | Details |
| 143 | Data Operations Analyst | $ 92,400 | 24 | Details |
| 144 | Master Data Management | $ 90,700 | 12 | Details |
| 145 | Python Developer | $ 89,605 | 28 | Details |
| 146 | Data Governance Specialist | $ 88,000 | 20 | Details |
| 147 | Insight Analyst | $ 86,600 | 36 | Details |
| 148 | Data Analytics Specialist | $ 85,150 | 8 | Details |
| 149 | Data Management Specialist | $ 84,244 | 66 | Details |
| 150 | Actuarial Analyst | $ 82,350 | 8 | Details |
| 151 | Data Quality Specialist | $ 82,278 | 8 | Details |
| 152 | Power BI Expert | $ 82,104 | 6 | Details |
| 153 | Data and Reporting Analyst | $ 81,950 | 18 | Details |
| 154 | Research Analyst | $ 80,000 | 65 | Details |
| 155 | Encounter Data Management Professional | $ 79,650 | 14 | Details |
| 156 | Postdoctoral Fellow | $ 78,984 | 16 | Details |
| 157 | Data and Reporting Professional | $ 78,150 | 12 | Details |
| 158 | Data Visualization Designer | $ 75,500 | 8 | Details |
| 159 | Power BI | $ 72,092 | 12 | Details |
| 160 | Research Associate | $ 72,000 | 66 | Details |
| 161 | Sales Development Representative | $ 70,000 | 8 | Details |
| 162 | Bioinformatician | $ 66,265 | 12 | Details |
| 163 | Data Reporting Analyst | $ 65,797 | 18 | Details |
| 164 | Data Specialist | $ 65,381 | 188 | Details |
| 165 | Research Assistant | $ 62,000 | 27 | Details |
| 166 | Data Quality Engineer | $ 31,578 | 6 | Details |
| 167 | Stage | $ 20,841 | 10 | Details |
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