Salary for Senior-level / Expert Researcher during 2025
💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Researcher during 2025 is USD 175,196
✏️ This salary info is based on 80 individual salaries reported during 2025
Salary details
The average senior-level / expert Researcher salary lies between USD 130,800 and USD 230,000 globally. 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
- Researcher
- Experience
- Senior-level / Expert
- Region
- global/worldwide
- Salary year
- 2025
- Sample size
- 80
- Top 10%
-
- Top 25%
-
- Median
-
- Bottom 25%
-
- Bottom 10%
-
All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.
Last updated:Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Researcher roles
The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Researcher job listings are Machine Learning, Python and Engineering. 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:
Machine Learning | 603 jobs Python | 600 jobs Engineering | 513 jobs Research | 480 jobs LLMs | 408 jobs Deep Learning | 385 jobs Computer Science | 315 jobs ML models | 313 jobs Testing | 312 jobs SQL | 276 jobs AWS | 273 jobs GCP | 267 jobs Kubernetes | 233 jobs Git | 231 jobs Data visualization | 230 jobs Docker | 228 jobs PhD | 216 jobs Business Intelligence | 211 jobs Looker | 207 jobs PyTorch | 203 jobsTop 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Researcher roles
The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Researcher job listings are Career development, Startup environment and Equity / stock options. 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 | 570 jobs Startup environment | 320 jobs Equity / stock options | 252 jobs Insurance | 248 jobs Salary bonus | 208 jobs Competitive pay | 204 jobs Conferences | 201 jobs Health care | 157 jobs Medical leave | 130 jobs Flex hours | 75 jobs Team events | 69 jobs Parental leave | 59 jobs Flex vacation | 59 jobs Relocation support | 35 jobs 401(k) matching | 29 jobs Wellness | 24 jobs Transparency | 11 jobs Flexible spending account | 9 jobs Fitness / gym | 8 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 8 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.