AI Researcher Salary in United States during 2025
💰 The median AI Researcher Salary in United States during 2025 is USD 177,500
✏️ This salary info is based on 46 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average AI Researcher salary lies between USD 130,700 and USD 250,000 in the United States. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.
- Job title
- AI Researcher
- Experience
- all levels
- Region
- United States
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 46
- Top 10%
-
- Top 25%
-
- Median
-
- Bottom 25%
-
- Bottom 10%
-
Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
Last updated:Salary trend
Top 20 Job Tags for AI Researcher roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with AI Researcher job listings are Research, Machine Learning and Python. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:
Research | 125 jobs Machine Learning | 113 jobs Python | 112 jobs Computer Science | 105 jobs LLMs | 90 jobs PyTorch | 80 jobs Deep Learning | 72 jobs Engineering | 70 jobs PhD | 68 jobs NLP | 62 jobs TensorFlow | 62 jobs Architecture | 57 jobs Generative AI | 55 jobs Statistics | 49 jobs Computer Vision | 46 jobs Pipelines | 40 jobs Reinforcement Learning | 39 jobs Privacy | 38 jobs R | 34 jobs AWS | 32 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for AI Researcher roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with AI Researcher job listings are Career development, Conferences and Health care. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:
Career development | 105 jobs Conferences | 72 jobs Health care | 30 jobs Competitive pay | 29 jobs Equity / stock options | 27 jobs Startup environment | 22 jobs Flex hours | 20 jobs Salary bonus | 17 jobs Flex vacation | 14 jobs Team events | 14 jobs Medical leave | 14 jobs Parental leave | 10 jobs Wellness | 8 jobs Insurance | 7 jobs Fitness / gym | 6 jobs Relocation support | 5 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 5 jobs 401(k) matching | 4 jobs Flexible spending account | 4 jobs Home office stipend | 3 jobsRelated salaries
Want to contribute?
📝 Submit your salary info
Enter your own salary data for the current or past work year. It's quite simple and doesn't take more than a minute to fill out.
Go to salary survey📢 Share our salary survey
Share our "in-less-than-a-minute survey" with others working in the field of AI, ML, Data Science. The more data we have the better for everyone.
💾 Download the data
All collected information will be updated into a public dataset regularly and provided as a download free for anyone to use.
Go to download page🚀 Search for jobs & talent
If you're thinking about a career change or want to hire fresh talent quickly check out the jobs page.
Go to frontpageAbout this project
We collect salary information anonymously from professionals and employers all over the world and make it publicly available for anyone to use, share and play around with.
Our goal is to have open salary data for everyone. So newbies, experienced pros, hiring managers, recruiters and also startup founders or people wanting to switch careers can make better decisions.