OpenAI salaries
The median posted base pay for tech jobs at OpenAI is $351K a year, from 350 open jobs with posted pay. The middle half of the jobs is from $296K to $396K. The median posted range is $266K to $423K. The median at OpenAI is 80% above the median of all companies ($195K).
- Median posted base pay
- $351K
- Middle half of the jobs
- $296K to $396K
- 10th to 90th percentile
- $246K to $440K
- Open jobs with posted pay
- 350
OpenAI pay by level
Posted base pay at OpenAI, by the level in the job title. A level needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay.
- Level not stated323 jobs$356K$308K to $396K
- Senior17 jobs$285K$263K to $335K
- Staff6 jobs$356K$356K to $356K
- Principal4 jobs$477K$456K to $498K
| Level | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level not stated | $246K | $308K | $356K | $396K | $440K | 323 |
| Senior | $230K | $263K | $285K | $335K | $377K | 17 |
| Staff | $313K | $356K | $356K | $356K | $366K | 6 |
| Principal | $456K | $456K | $477K | $498K | $498K | 4 |
OpenAI pay by job type
The median for each job type at OpenAI, compared with the median of all companies for the same job type. A job type needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay. One job can have more than one job type.
| Job type | Median at OpenAI | Middle half | Median of all companies | Difference | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software engineering | $356K | $308K to $367K | $192K | +85% | 135 |
| ML / AI engineering | $366K | $308K to $440K | $215K | +70% | 103 |
| Inference & ML systems | $360K | $338K to $398K | $225K | +60% | 67 |
| Infra, platform & SRE | $356K | $287K to $388K | $193K | +84% | 64 |
| Research | $440K | $398K to $440K | $215K | +104% | 35 |
| Product management | $317K | $248K to $338K | $200K | +59% | 30 |
| Security engineering | $356K | $308K to $365K | $195K | +82% | 29 |
| Design | $278K | $278K to $303K | $180K | +54% | 9 |
| Data science | $381K | $323K to $404K | $183K | +109% | 8 |
| Data engineering | $356K | $333K to $361K | $183K | +95% | 3 |
Open jobs at OpenAI with posted pay
These are the 20 jobs with the highest posted pay, from 350 open jobs with posted pay. Each range is the base pay that OpenAI posted.
- Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Foundations, Search$380K to $850K
- Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search$380K to $850K
- Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search$380K to $850K
- Researcher, Training$300K to $600K
- Engineering Manager, MLE$500K to $555K
- Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization AI/ML$381K to $555K
- Engineering Manager, Core Experimentation$510K to $536K
- Data Engineering Manager, Growth & Revenue$459K to $536K
- Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT Education and Learning$459K to $536K
- Principal Software Engineer, Productivity$459K to $536K
- Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)$295K to $536K
- Product Manager, Financial Services$401K to $530K
- Data Scientist, Ads Demand$293K to $515K
- Data Scientist, FinEng$293K to $515K
- Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth$293K to $515K
- Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security$401K to $510K
- Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security$401K to $510K
- Machine Learning Engineer, Implicit Signals$381K to $510K
- Network Engineer$347K to $510K
- Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel Engineering$347K to $510K
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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 company needs 5 or more open jobs with posted pay to have a page. Jobs under the same company name count as one company.
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.