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3 July 2025, 15:45
2025-07-03
Salaries at Meta: how much do AI engineers, researchers, and other IT specialists at the tech giant earn?
It became known how much Meta pays its IT specialists at a time when it is ready to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to lure other specialists from competitors.
It became known how much Meta pays its IT specialists at a time when it is ready to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to lure other specialists from competitors.
Tech companies tend to be tight-lipped about their compensation. But they are required to file salary ranges with the Department of Labor when they hire foreign workers under the special H-1B visa program. So these mandatory government documents provide a glimpse into the real pay scale.
According to these documents, software engineers at Meta can earn up to $480,000. Machine learning positions reach $440,000. Even product designers and researchers typically earn over $200,000, Business Insider reports .
The figures reflect annual salaries only, excluding stock options, signing bonuses and other benefits that can often double or triple total compensation packages.
Here's how much Meta paid for key roles in the first quarter of 2025.
Artificial Intelligence: Meta's Highest-Paid Research Engineer Makes Up to $440,000
Senior Machine Learning Engineer: $232,017 to $232,266.
Data: Data scientist at Meta earns up to $270,000
Data Analyst: $168,000 to $204,000
Data Analytics Manager: $223,202
Data Engineer: $125,068 to $270,000
Data Engineering Manager: $224,028 to $275,282
Data Science Manager: $248,920 to $301,619
Database Engineer: $181,000 to $240,002
Data Processing Director: $320,000.
Data Processing Specialist: from $122,760 to $270,000.
Senior Data Engineer: $189,066 to $209,720.
Senior Data Processing Specialist: $204,541 to $227,559.
Senior Data and Analytics Manager: $280,000.
Engineering: Software engineers earn up to $480,000 in base salary
ASIC Engineer: from $165,568 to $299,880.
Business Engineer: from $137,000 to $228,538.
Design Engineer: from $185,000 to $256,270.
Electrical Engineer: from $164,000 to $255,000.
Embedded Software Engineer: $169,313 to $262,822.
Engineering Director: $352,310 to $353,042.
Engineer Manager: from $246,536 to $288,767.
Interface Engineer: from $177,747 to $233,495.
Hardware Engineer: $176,000 to $240,000.
Network Engineer: from $115,000 to $239,237.
Quality Assurance Engineer: from $189,213 to $244,000.
Security Engineer: from $145,000 to $258,524.
Senior Software Engineer: $194,467 to $302,134.
Software Engineer: $120,000 to $480,000.
Software Development Manager: $219,978 to $328,000.
Product and Program Management: A Product Manager at Meta earns up to $314,159
Product Designer: $159,000 to $283,693.
Product Design Director: $321,538.
Product Design Manager: $267,540 to $279,594.
Product Development Analyst: $142,000 to $206,000.
Director of Product Management: $356,512.
Product Manager: from $161,606 to $314,159.
Senior Product Designer: $199,932.
Senior Product Manager: $224,323.
Technical Program Manager: $164,131 to $274,596.
Study: The highest-paid user experience researcher earns up to $350,000
Applied Research Associate: from $214,032 to $232,000.
Researcher specializing in hardware: $214,311.
Researcher researching perception: $249,369.
Research Fellow: from $167,000 to $321,101.
Research Associate-Manager: $258,524.
Senior Research Fellow: $214,032.
User Experience Researcher: $170,000 to $350,000.
Researcher-Manager, User Experience: $302,134.
User Interface Researcher: $195,000 to $292,160.
The data comes amid fierce competition for artificial intelligence talent in Silicon Valley, with Meta reportedly offering some AI researchers compensation packages of up to $300 million over four years as it builds a new superintelligence lab.
This craze isn't just limited to tech giants. Thinking Machines Lab, a secretive AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is paying IT professionals base salaries of up to $500,000 before the company launches a single product, Business Insider reported earlier this week.
The battle took on a personal dimension after Meta poached seven OpenAI researchers, including Trapit Bansal, co-author of the company’s o1 reasoning model.
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