LLMs Salaries
The average salary for LLMs jobs is $219.1k – $321.6k per year across 157 jobs. Pay ranges from $193.0k – $306.1k for Mid Level roles to $257.5k – $347.1k at the Director level.
Median salary
$255.2k
Based on 157 jobs · 20% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$180k
Average
$270.3k
75th percentile
$385k
LLMs salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Level | $193.0k – $306.1k | 42 | +28% |
| Senior | $219.6k – $313.2k | 99 | +11% |
| Director | $257.5k – $347.1k | 6 | +10% |
Top companies for LLMs salaries
10 companies hiring for LLMs roles, ranked by average salary.
Anthropic
Avg. $259.2k – $354.0k · 38 jobs
Scale
Avg. $220.1k – $277.6k · 18 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $237.5k – $356.1k · 13 jobs
Decagon
Avg. $237.7k – $326.8k · 11 jobs
xAI
Avg. $179k – $427k · 10 jobs
LangChain
Avg. $188.0k – $239.1k · 9 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $204.4k – $343.3k · 9 jobs
Harvey
Avg. $199.6k – $244.6k · 8 jobs
NVIDIA
Avg. $198.5k – $349.3k · 8 jobs
Crusoe
Avg. $186.0k – $225.6k · 5 jobs
LLMs salaries by location
Average LLMs salaries across 5 locations.
Related titles
Top paying titles across 6 titles.
Software Engineering
Avg. $196.0k – $313.4k · 513 jobs
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $152.7k – $307.6k · 209 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $183.5k – $286.1k · 203 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $201.0k – $315.7k · 184 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $209.3k – $344.8k · 161 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $190.8k – $312.1k · 160 jobs
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LLMs salary FAQs
All salary figures are normalized to USD annual equivalents. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.