Who pays data people the most

The US employers whose own data job postings stated the highest base pay over the last year, overall and for each role. Pay ranges in job ads, not what anyone was paid.

Across every data role

Median stated base across each employer's US data postings. Employers with 20 or more postings that listed pay.

  1. 1Netflix73 postings with pay$486K
  2. 2Mercor25 postings with pay$315K
  3. 3OpenAI132 postings with pay$314K
  4. 4Reddit22 postings with pay$276K
  5. 5Vohra Wound Physicians26 postings with pay$275K
  6. 6Pinterest32 postings with pay$271K
  7. 7Roblox25 postings with pay$248K
  8. 8Nvidia130 postings with pay$239K
  9. 9Nvidia122 postings with pay$238K
  10. 10Polymarket21 postings with pay$238K
  11. 11ServiceNow36 postings with pay$228K
  12. 12Sap53 postings with pay$227K
  13. 13Plaid44 postings with pay$227K
  14. 14Amazon61 postings with pay$224K
  15. 15General Motors111 postings with pay$216K
  16. 16Fluidstack57 postings with pay$215K
  17. 17Snowflake89 postings with pay$213K
  18. 18Airwallex26 postings with pay$210K
  19. 19Adobe28 postings with pay$209K
  20. 20Hewlett Packard Enterprise80 postings with pay$205K
  21. 21PayPal54 postings with pay$198K
  22. 22Vertex Pharmaceuticals87 postings with pay$195K
  23. 23Harvey27 postings with pay$195K
  24. 24Airbnb20 postings with pay$195K
  25. 25Alphabet1,090 postings with pay$195K
  26. 26Gilead Sciences101 postings with pay$194K
  27. 27Palo Alto Networks60 postings with pay$192K
  28. 28Intuit26 postings with pay$191K
  29. 29Microsoft31 postings with pay$190K
  30. 30Workday31 postings with pay$189K
  31. 31Takeda Pharmaceutical42 postings with pay$187K
  32. 32Socure32 postings with pay$183K
  33. 33Insulet44 postings with pay$182K
  34. 34Sanofi40 postings with pay$182K
  35. 35Meta Platforms139 postings with pay$181K
  36. 36Everpure23 postings with pay$179K
  37. 37Expedia Group30 postings with pay$177K
  38. 38Adyen26 postings with pay$177K
  39. 39NetApp22 postings with pay$177K
  40. 40Qualcomm144 postings with pay$176K
  41. 41AstraZeneca71 postings with pay$175K
  42. 42BNY Mellon32 postings with pay$173K
  43. 43Ramp20 postings with pay$172K
  44. 44Ffive28 postings with pay$171K
  45. 45Moderna25 postings with pay$170K
  46. 46Clear Secure22 postings with pay$170K
  47. 47HIMS & Hers21 postings with pay$170K
  48. 48Workiva23 postings with pay$170K
  49. 49Bristol Myers Squibb138 postings with pay$168K
  50. 50Visa210 postings with pay$167K

Data analyst

Employers with 8 or more data analyst postings that listed pay. Every data analyst posting in the US

  1. 1Nvidia9 postings with pay$187K
  2. 2Alphabet22 postings with pay$177K
  3. 3Nvidia9 postings with pay$177K
  4. 4Oracle24 postings with pay$175K
  5. 5AbbVie19 postings with pay$159K
  6. 6Oracle46 postings with pay$156K
  7. 7Pacific Gas And Electric Company8 postings with pay$143K
  8. 8Caterpillar18 postings with pay$140K
  9. 9WF Group15 postings with pay$140K
  10. 10Medtronic9 postings with pay$139K

Data engineer

Employers with 8 or more data engineer postings that listed pay. Every data engineer posting in the US

  1. 1OpenAI9 postings with pay$339K
  2. 2Sap9 postings with pay$309K
  3. 3Nvidia19 postings with pay$270K
  4. 4Nvidia18 postings with pay$261K
  5. 5Salesforce9 postings with pay$216K
  6. 6Snowflake20 postings with pay$212K
  7. 7Meta Platforms8 postings with pay$200K
  8. 8Visa13 postings with pay$198K
  9. 9Alphabet37 postings with pay$192K
  10. 10Cisco8 postings with pay$187K

Data scientist

Employers with 8 or more data scientist postings that listed pay. Every data scientist posting in the US

  1. 1Netflix25 postings with pay$486K
  2. 2OpenAI38 postings with pay$361K
  3. 3Nvidia18 postings with pay$238K
  4. 4Nvidia13 postings with pay$236K
  5. 5Sap19 postings with pay$227K
  6. 6Plaid11 postings with pay$227K
  7. 7Snowflake11 postings with pay$224K
  8. 8Pinterest9 postings with pay$214K
  9. 9PayPal13 postings with pay$209K
  10. 10Amazon8 postings with pay$208K

Analytics engineer

Employers with 8 or more analytics engineer postings that listed pay. Every analytics engineer posting in the US

  1. 1Netflix12 postings with pay$448K

Machine learning engineer

Employers with 8 or more machine learning engineer postings that listed pay. Every machine learning engineer posting in the US

  1. 1Netflix9 postings with pay$608K
  2. 2OpenAI9 postings with pay$402K
  3. 3Pinterest9 postings with pay$290K
  4. 4Reddit12 postings with pay$276K
  5. 5Amazon21 postings with pay$262K
  6. 6PayPal8 postings with pay$244K
  7. 7Analog9 postings with pay$238K
  8. 8Nvidia16 postings with pay$236K
  9. 9Nvidia13 postings with pay$236K
  10. 10General Motors49 postings with pay$230K

Data leadership

Employers with 8 or more data leadership postings that listed pay. Every data leadership posting in the US

  1. 1Netflix8 postings with pay$614K
  2. 2CBOE8 postings with pay$255K
  3. 3Alphabet58 postings with pay$254K
  4. 4Regeneron23 postings with pay$244K
  5. 5Salesforce13 postings with pay$243K
  6. 6Snowflake17 postings with pay$231K
  7. 7Visa26 postings with pay$225K
  8. 8AstraZeneca18 postings with pay$225K
  9. 9Gilead Sciences38 postings with pay$224K
  10. 10Abbott Laboratories11 postings with pay$223K

Base pay employers stated in their own US job postings over the last year, one posting per employer and title, at the midpoint of each range. These are pay ranges in job ads, not what anyone was paid, and they leave out stock and bonus. Updated . How we count