Median maximum salary is $179,500 and the median floor is $121,200, on 161 live LLM engineer postings that publish a USD range. 482 live postings carry LLM in the title in total, and the market-wide median maximum across 43,250 USD postings is $200,000, a useful floor for negotiation. Measured October 2026.
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.
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