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Anthropic salaries

What Anthropic publishes in its job posts: the median, the range, and how pay differs by role, AI level and country. Only salaries from live posts, nothing self-reported.

$348k median · $288k to $403k middle half · 532 job posts with a salary

Updated Oct 24, 2026

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Salary by role at Anthropic

In USD a year. Range is the middle half of posts from 5 posts, and lowest to highest below that. A row appears from 3 posts.

Published salary at Anthropic by role
RoleJob postsMedianRange
Software Engineering165$403k$363k to $445k
Sales51$335k$291k to $415k
Product42$345k$332k to $400k
Research41$445k$353k to $675k
Operations40$280k$254k to $336k
Security29$363k$308k to $403k
Finance27$265k$213k to $283k
Data15$333k$333k to $363k

Salary by AI level at Anthropic

Level rates every job by how central AI is to the work. In USD a year.

Published salary at Anthropic by AI level
AI levelJob postsMedianRange
Builds AI ●●●●111$425k$383k to $515k
Works on AI ●●●○213$345k$295k to $400k
Uses AI ●●○○23$265k$210k to $328k
Little AI ●○○○185$320k$265k to $363k

Salary by country at Anthropic

Posts published in USD, grouped by the country of the job.

Published salary at Anthropic by country
CountryJob postsMedianRange
United States528$348k$288k to $403k

Other currencies and hourly pay

Shown apart. Amounts are never converted between currencies or between hourly and annual.

  • GBP: 43 job posts, median £290k, £215k to £358k a year.
  • EUR: 19 job posts, median €220k, €185k to €276k a year.
  • CAD: 1 job post with a salary, too few for a figure (3 are needed).

Anthropic job posts with a salary

The 25 most recent of 595. Pay is shown as the employer published it.

Method

Based on 595 job posts at Anthropic with a published salary, read from the live job posts themselves. Each post counts once, at the midpoint of its listed range. Hourly rates are shown apart from annual pay, and amounts whose period is unclear are left out. Currencies are never converted or mixed. No surveys, no self-reported figures. Updated Oct 24, 2026.

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Anthropic salary questions, answered from the data

What salary does Anthropic pay?

Anthropic job posts with a published annual salary in USD have a median of $348k. The middle half of those posts range from $288k to $403k. That is 532 job posts, as of Oct 24, 2026.

Which roles at Anthropic list the highest salaries?

Among roles with at least 3 posts that publish a salary, Research has the highest median at $445k, from 41 job posts. The table by role above shows every role that clears the minimum.

Does the salary at Anthropic change with how much AI the job involves?

Level rates every job by how central AI is to the work. Median published salaries by level at Anthropic: Builds AI $425k, Works on AI $345k, Uses AI $265k, Little AI $320k. Only levels with at least 3 posts that publish a salary are shown.

Where do these Anthropic salary figures come from?

From the live job posts at Anthropic that list a salary, nothing else. Level takes the midpoint of each listed range, then reports the median and the middle half of posts once there are at least 3. Amounts are never converted between currencies, and amounts whose period is unclear are left out.

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