What are the highest paying AI jobs?

By median maximum salary, the best-paid categories are research ($250,000 on 874 USD postings), legal ($237,500 on 486 USD postings), and product ($235,200 on 2,086 USD postings). The market-wide median maximum is $200,000 across 43,250 live postings that publish a range. Measured October 2026.

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How this number is measured

Every figure above is computed from the live postings on Level at the time of measurement, October 2026. Each posting is read for how much of the daily work is AI, then rated from Little AI to Builds AI. Salaries use the posting's own range, in US dollars only. Numbers are recomputed monthly and the page is updated when they move by more than 10 percent.