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Black Forest Labs salaries

What Black Forest Labs 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.

€175k median · €165k to €198k middle half · 12 job posts with a salary

Updated Nov 7, 2026

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Salary by AI level at Black Forest Labs

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

Published salary at Black Forest Labs by AI level
AI levelJob postsMedianRange
Builds AI ●●●●6€210k€185k to €235k
Little AI ●○○○4€169k€162k to €175k

Salary by country at Black Forest Labs

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

Published salary at Black Forest Labs by country
CountryJob postsMedianRange
Germany9€175k€168k to €235k
United States3€165k€163k to €185k

Other currencies and hourly pay

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

  • USD: 2 job posts with a salary, too few for a figure (3 are needed).

Black Forest Labs job posts with a salary

Pay is shown as the employer published it.

Method

Based on 14 job posts at Black Forest Labs 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 Nov 7, 2026.

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Black Forest Labs salary questions, answered from the data

What salary does Black Forest Labs pay?

Black Forest Labs job posts with a published annual salary in EUR have a median of €175k. The middle half of those posts range from €165k to €198k. That is 12 job posts, as of Nov 7, 2026.

Does the salary at Black Forest Labs 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 Black Forest Labs: Builds AI €210k, Little AI €169k. Only levels with at least 3 posts that publish a salary are shown.

Where do these Black Forest Labs salary figures come from?

From the live job posts at Black Forest Labs 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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