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How many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year do IT specialists at Microsoft and Google whose work is related to AI receive?

And while Microsoft is laying off workers in the AI space, IT professionals who specialize in the technology continue to earn high salaries for their work. As for Google, the search giant has long been known in Silicon Valley for its generous compensation packages. But a few months ago, the company changed its approach to evaluating employee performance, emphasizing that “high performance is more important than ever.”

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How many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year do IT specialists at Microsoft and Google whose work is related to AI receive?

And while Microsoft is laying off workers in the AI space, IT professionals who specialize in the technology continue to earn high salaries for their work. As for Google, the search giant has long been known in Silicon Valley for its generous compensation packages. But a few months ago, the company changed its approach to evaluating employee performance, emphasizing that “high performance is more important than ever.”

Microsoft

Data obtained by Business Insider showed that Microsoft employees working on artificial intelligence earn more than their non-AI colleagues.

Note

The data is taken from work visa information. Therefore, these figures only apply to foreign workers and only take into account base pay, not bonuses and promotional rewards that employees may also receive.

Microsoft offers software engineers hired from abroad $284,000, and product managers $250,000.

Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn also hires foreign workers, including in the field of machine learning. A senior software engineer at LinkedIn can earn up to $278,000, while a full-time software engineer can earn up to $336,000.

Salaries for key AI-related positions (data based on approximately 5,400 applications for the first quarter of 2025).

  • Business Analyst: from $159,300 to $191,580.
  • Business planning: from $117,200 to $201,900.
  • Business Program Management: from $102,380 to $195,100.
  • Cloud Network Engineering: from $122,700 to $220,716.
  • Cloud solution architecture: from $130,000 to $207,285.
  • Construction project management: from $150,000 to $193,690.
  • Customer Experience Engineering: from $126,422 to $239,585.
  • Customer Experience Program Management: $141,865 to $201,508.
  • Client Solution Architecture: from $122,730 to $225,000.
  • Data Analytics: $132,385 to $205,000.
  • Data Center Operations Management: from $115,000 to $176,900.
  • Data Engineering: from $144,855 to $264,000.
  • Data Science: $121,200 to $274,500.
  • Demand planning: from $147,000 to $204,550.
  • Digital Cloud Solutions Architecture: from $155,085 to $217,589.
  • Electrical Engineering: from $138,995 to $247,650.
  • Financial analysis: from $91,100 to $213,800.
  • Hardware Engineering: from $136,000 to $270,641.
  • Product Design: from $125,100 to $208,058.
  • Product Management: from $122,800 to $250,000.
  • Product Marketing: from $113,350 to $213,200.
  • Scientific research: $146,054 to $208,000.
  • Research, applied and information sciences: from $85,821 to $208,800.
  • Service Engineering: from $130,080 to $182,500.
  • Silicon Engineering: from $116,334 to $275,000.
  • Facility Reliability Engineering: from $135,100 to $236,670.
  • Software development: from $82,971 to $284,000.
  • Solution Development Specialists: from $144,000 to $209,300.
  • Supply planning: from $131,300 to $193,270.
  • Technical Program Management: $120,900 to $238,000.
  • Consultative technical support: from $114,290 to $153,984.
  • Engineering technical support: from $80,371 to $176,606.
  • Technology specialists: from $168,800 to $200,000.
  • UX research: from $138,560 to $177,148.

LinkedIn's full-time software engineers in machine learning can earn up to $336,000.

  • Software Development Manager: $197,185 to $301,000.
  • Product Manager: $141,000 to $252,000.
  • Software Engineer: from $108,826 to $205,000.
  • Software Engineer, Machine Learning: from $135,000 to $231,000.
  • Software Engineer, System Infrastructure: from $135,000 to $231,000.
  • Senior Software Engineer: $121,000 to $249,000.
  • Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning: $154,000 to $278,000.
  • Senior Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure: $144,000 to $278,000.
  • Full-time software engineer: $158,000 to $301,000.
  • Full-time software engineer, machine learning: $190,486 to $336,000.
  • Full-time software engineer, systems infrastructure: $190,486 to $336,000.

Google

Note

These figures are also obtained from documents that all companies submit to the Ministry of Labor to obtain work visas for foreign workers.

It's worth noting that these figures reflect salaries only and don't take into account equity or bonuses, which Google employees also receive.

Salaries for key AI-related positions based on approximately 6,800 applications from Q1 2025

Business and analytical roles: Financial analysts can earn over $200,000.

  • Account Manager: from $85,500 to $166,000.
  • Business Systems Analyst: from $141,000 to $201,885.
  • Financial Analyst: from $102,000 to $225,230.
  • Search Quality Analyst: from $120,000 to $235,000.

Engineering positions: Google software engineers can take home up to $340,000.

  • Software engineers at Waymo, owned by Google, can earn between $150,000 and $282,000.
  • Applications Engineer: $138,000 to $199,000.
  • Customer Service Engineer: from $85,009.60 to $228,000.
  • Client Solutions Engineer: from $108,000 to $228,000.
  • Data Engineer: $111,000 to $175,000.
  • Electrical Engineer: from $119,000 to $203,000.
  • Hardware Engineer: $130,000 to $284,000.
  • Network Engineer: from $108,000 to $195,000.
  • Research Engineer: from $153,000 to $265,000.
  • Security Engineer: from $97,000 to $233,000 Senior Software Engineer: from $187,000 to $253,000.
  • Silicon Design Verification Engineer: $126,000 to $207,050.
  • Silicon Engineer: $146,000 to $252,000.
  • Silicon Specialist: $144,000 to $223,000.
  • Software Engineer: from $109,180 to $340,000.
  • Software Engineer (Waymo): from $150,000 to $282,000.
  • Software Engineer Manager: $199,000 to $316,000.
  • Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer: from $133,000 to $258,000.
  • Full-time software engineer: from $220,000 to $323,000

Scientist roles: A research scientist can earn up to $303,000.

  • Data scientist: from $133,000 to $260,000.
  • Research scientist: from $155,000 to $303,000.

Management positions: Google's highest-paid product managers can earn up to $280,000.

  • Product Manager: from $136,000 to $280,000.
  • Program Manager: $125,000 to $236,000.
  • Technical Program Manager: from $116,000 to $270,000.

Consulting roles: A solutions consultant can earn up to $282,000.

  • Solutions Consultant: from $100,000 to $282,000.
  • Technical Solutions Consultant: from $110,000 to $253,000.

Design roles: A UX designer at Google can earn up to $230,000.

  • UX designer: from $124,000 to $230,000.
  • UX researcher: from $124,000 to $224,000.

We previously told you how much IT professionals specializing in AI will earn at Meta .

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