AI researcher salary in the San Francisco Bay Area
The median posted base pay for AI research jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area is $246K a year, from 880 open jobs at 271 companies. The middle half of the jobs is from $210K to $295K. One job in ten has posted pay above $398K.
- Median posted base pay
- $246K
- Middle half of the jobs
- $210K to $295K
- 10th to 90th percentile
- $181K to $398K
- Open jobs with posted pay
- 880
- Companies
- 271
AI researcher pay by level in the San Francisco Bay Area
Posted base pay for AI research jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, by the level in the job title. A level needs 20 or more jobs with posted pay.
- Level not stated623 jobs$245K$200K to $295K
- Senior131 jobs$226K$213K to $273K
- Staff66 jobs$261K$238K to $306K
- Principal34 jobs$262K$250K to $309K
| Level | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level not stated | $178K | $200K | $245K | $295K | $413K | 623 |
| Senior | $195K | $213K | $226K | $273K | $300K | 131 |
| Staff | $216K | $238K | $261K | $306K | $335K | 66 |
| Principal | $225K | $250K | $262K | $309K | $380K | 34 |
Top-paying companies for AI research jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area
The companies with the highest median posted base pay for AI research jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area. A company name opens its levels in the pay explorer.
- 1Anthropic$600K36 jobs
- 2OpenAI$440K33 jobs
- 3Thinking Machines Lab$413K19 jobs
- 4Mercor$350K5 jobs
- 5Turing$303K10 jobs
- 6Institute of Foundation Models$300K10 jobs
- 7Decagon$300K7 jobs
- 8Periodic Labs$300K7 jobs
- 9Apollo Research$295K5 jobs
- 10Scale AI$292K10 jobs
- 11Snorkel AI$288K6 jobs
- 12Cartesia$275K5 jobs
- 13Applied Intuition$275K10 jobs
- 14Salesforce$271K5 jobs
- 15NVIDIA$270K35 jobs
- 16The Voleon Group$263K6 jobs
- 171X$250K5 jobs
- 18Capital One$246K20 jobs
- 19FAR.AI$244K6 jobs
- 20Nuro$243K5 jobs
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How we compute these numbers
We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.
We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A role page needs 20 or more open jobs with posted pay. In the bar chart, a company needs 5 or more jobs with posted pay.
The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.