Machine Learning Salaries
The average salary for Machine Learning jobs is $205.3k – $318.7k per year across 392 jobs. Pay ranges from $117.0k – $186.7k for Entry Level roles to $291.9k – $473.5k at the Director level.
Median salary
$242.3k
Based on 392 jobs · 16% more than the average salary on Inference Jobs
25th percentile
$155k
Average
$262.0k
75th percentile
$385k
Machine Learning salary by seniority
| Seniority | Avg. salary | Jobs | vs Avg. on Inference Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry Level | $117.0k – $186.7k | 12 | +22% |
| Mid Level | $170.4k – $285.9k | 106 | +17% |
| Senior | $212.8k – $321.9k | 243 | +12% |
| Director | $291.9k – $473.5k | 7 | +39% |
Top companies for Machine Learning salaries
10 companies hiring for Machine Learning roles, ranked by average salary.
NVIDIA
Avg. $179.4k – $316.6k · 57 jobs
Anthropic
Avg. $291.9k – $409.4k · 49 jobs
OpenAI
Avg. $249.0k – $361.6k · 42 jobs
Applied Intuition
Avg. $155.9k – $261.2k · 41 jobs
Scale
Avg. $207.3k – $269.9k · 33 jobs
xAI
Avg. $178.4k – $435.3k · 19 jobs
CoreWeave
Avg. $146.6k – $211.2k · 17 jobs
Perplexity
Avg. $239.2k – $375.8k · 13 jobs
Baseten
Avg. $187k – $264.5k · 10 jobs
Thinking Machines Lab
Avg. $332.5k – $475k · 10 jobs
Machine Learning salaries by location
Average Machine Learning salaries across 11 locations.
San Francisco
Avg. $237.6k – $338.1k · 181 jobs
Santa Clara
Avg. $182.1k – $337.3k · 52 jobs
Sunnyvale
Avg. $159.9k – $271.6k · 35 jobs
New York City
Avg. $199.5k – $271.8k · 23 jobs
Palo Alto
Avg. $178.2k – $434.7k · 17 jobs
Livingston
Avg. $163.9k – $237.9k · 9 jobs
London
Avg. $225.8k – $353.1k · 9 jobs
Washington, D.C.
Avg. $174.8k – $262.2k · 7 jobs
Paris
Avg. $223.9k – $259.6k · 3 jobs
Bangalore
Avg. $91.7k – $132.5k · 3 jobs
Related titles
Top paying titles across 6 titles.
Software Engineering
Avg. $196.3k – $313.3k · 510 jobs
DevOps
Avg. $182.7k – $283.5k · 201 jobs
Hardware Engineering
Avg. $152.5k – $308.9k · 201 jobs
Infrastructure Engineering
Avg. $202.2k – $316.4k · 187 jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $209.1k – $344.9k · 162 jobs
Software Engineer
Avg. $190.5k – $311.4k · 161 jobs
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Machine Learning 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.