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xAI salaries

What xAI 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.

$225k median · $149k to $310k middle half · 81 job posts with a salary

Updated Oct 24, 2026

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Salary by role at xAI

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 xAI by role
RoleJob postsMedianRange
Software Engineering31$310k$213k to $310k
Security9$179k$164k to $179k
Data5$310k$215k to $310k
Legal4$233k$125k to $253k
Operations3$128k$83k to $128k

Salary by AI level at xAI

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

Published salary at xAI by AI level
AI levelJob postsMedianRange
Builds AI ●●●●24$310k$308k to $310k
Works on AI ●●●○16$258k$179k to $310k
Uses AI ●●○○3$138k$83k to $138k
Little AI ●○○○38$179k$126k to $236k

Salary by country at xAI

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

Published salary at xAI by country
CountryJob postsMedianRange
United States79$240k$157k to $310k

Other currencies and hourly pay

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

  • GBP: 5 job posts, median £185k, £185k a year.
  • EUR: 1 job post with a salary, too few for a figure (3 are needed).
  • Hourly in USD: 13 job posts, median $54/hr.

xAI job posts with a salary

The 25 most recent of 100. Pay is shown as the employer published it.

Method

Based on 100 job posts at xAI 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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xAI salary questions, answered from the data

What salary does xAI pay?

xAI job posts with a published annual salary in USD have a median of $225k. The middle half of those posts range from $149k to $310k. That is 81 job posts, as of Oct 24, 2026.

Which roles at xAI list the highest salaries?

Among roles with at least 3 posts that publish a salary, Software Engineering has the highest median at $310k, from 31 job posts. The table by role above shows every role that clears the minimum.

Does the salary at xAI 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 xAI: Builds AI $310k, Works on AI $258k, Uses AI $138k, Little AI $179k. Only levels with at least 3 posts that publish a salary are shown.

Where do these xAI salary figures come from?

From the live job posts at xAI 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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