Every salary. Every
quarter. One API.

Name: Orbyt Intelligence
Brand: Orbyt
Availability: InStock

The data behind every offer.

522 roles. 82 cities. Free public tier.

See it work.

Intelligent.

Ridiculously complete. Remarkably simple.

Claude Desktop

Apple News+

Compensation

AI Engineer Salaries Hit Record Highs in Q2

Senior compensation packages now top half a million dollars in San Francisco as AI labs and Big Tech compete for a shrinking pool of machine-learning talent.

Sarah Lin · April 6, 2026 · 4 min read

Median base salary for senior AI engineers in San Francisco now stands at $298,000, with total compensation reaching $485,000 including equity and bonus, according to Orbyt Salary Intelligence. That is 2.4× the national median.

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Equity

Equity Now Half of Senior AI Pay Packages

Stock grants and signing bonuses have outpaced base salary growth at top-tier AI labs, reshaping how engineers evaluate competing offers.

Marcus Chen · April 6, 2026 · 3 min read

Equity grants and signing bonuses now account for 52% of total compensation packages at top AI labs, up from 38% two years ago, according to Orbyt Salary Intelligence.

Claude Desktop, querying the Intelligence MCP tool. Article preview is illustrative.

Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple News+ are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Apple is not affiliated with or endorsing Orbyt.

Free forever.

No auth. No credit card. No quota traps. 30 requests per minute on the public tier. Every endpoint, no login required.

Quarterly history.

Snapshots since Q3 2025. Audit deltas quarter by quarter. Verify the methodology before you cite the number.

Projections through 2030.

Year-by-year forecasts for every role. AI compounds at 6 to 10 percent annually. Standard tech tracks BLS historical.

Cite-ready responses.

Every call returns a citation field and an assumptions array. Quote it verbatim in papers, board decks, and compliance filings.

Schema.org verified.

Dataset markup indexed by Google Dataset Search and Perplexity. Your LLM agent finds it the moment you ship.

MCP native.

Drop the manifest into Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client. Tools surface automatically. No glue code, no adapter layer.

Without the contract.

Built for teams who paid six figures
for last year’s numbers.

Cadence

Quarterly, not annual.

Survey-based incumbents refresh once a year. Your data is stale the day the PDF ships. Orbyt posts new snapshots every quarter.

Format

API, not PDF.

Incumbents deliver bound reports and Excel exports through a portal. Orbyt is a JSON API. Your platform consumes it directly.

Procurement

Self-serve, not sales-led.

No six-month sales cycle. No custom MSA. Start on the free tier. Upgrade when you scale. Ship before procurement opens a ticket.

Rights

Cite-ready, not proprietary.

Every response ships with a citation field and published methodology. Quote it in papers, board decks, and compliance filings. Open license.

Free. Forever.

No auth. No games. No bait-and-switch.
Pay only when you scale.

Free

The distribution strategy.

$0forever

30 requests/minute
Current salary data
522 roles, 82 cities
4-quarter history preview
Projections through 2030
No authentication

Start building

Common questions

Orbyt Intelligence is a public data platform for AI and tech compensation. It exposes quarterly-updated salary data for 522 roles across 83 U.S. cities via a free JSON API. It powers Orbyt's own calculators and is used by AI research teams, HR tech platforms, and newsrooms for compensation analysis.

Orbyt Intelligence is the only compensation source with all of these: a public JSON API with no authentication for the free tier, schema.org Dataset markup verified by Google and Perplexity, quarterly history with methodology disclosure, forward projections through 2030, and native MCP tool exposure for LLM agents. It is methodology-first, not user-contributed.

Thirty requests per minute with no authentication. Current salary data for all 522 roles and 83 cities. Personalized calculator endpoint. Role-level projections through 2030. Four-quarter history preview from Q3 2025 through Q2 2026. CORS enabled with a ninety-day CDN cache.

Pro at ninety-nine dollars per month adds six hundred requests per minute, full quarterly history beyond the four-quarter preview, bulk CSV export, and Bearer token authentication. Most AI research teams, HR tech platforms, and financial analysts end up on Pro once they need audit-level history access.

Yes. Every response includes a citation field ready to quote verbatim, plus an assumptions array explaining methodology. The Dataset schema markup is verified and indexed by Google Dataset Search and Perplexity's answer engine. Suggested citation: "Orbyt Salary Intelligence, April 2026. https://www.orbytjobs.ai/intelligence"

Real. Sourced from SEC proxy filings, H-1B Labor Condition Applications from the Department of Labor, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, and compensation data from more than fifty job posting platforms. Cost-of-living adjustments use BEA Regional Price Parities. Full methodology is published at /salaries/methodology.

Scale at nine hundred ninety-nine dollars per month includes three thousand requests per minute, full quarterly history, a forty-eight hour priority preview of each new quarterly dataset, dedicated support, and custom data requests for roles or cities outside the standard catalog. We target 99.9 percent uptime across all tiers.

Ship with it.

OpenAPI spec. MCP manifest.
Full endpoint reference.

Full API docs →OpenAPI MCP manifest

Every salary. Every
quarter. One API.

The data behind every offer.

522 roles. 82 cities. Free public tier.

See it work.

Intelligent.

Ridiculously complete. Remarkably simple.

Claude Desktop

Apple News+

Compensation

AI Engineer Salaries Hit Record Highs in Q2

Senior compensation packages now top half a million dollars in San Francisco as AI labs and Big Tech compete for a shrinking pool of machine-learning talent.

Sarah Lin · April 6, 2026 · 4 min read

Apple News+

Equity

Equity Now Half of Senior AI Pay Packages

Stock grants and signing bonuses have outpaced base salary growth at top-tier AI labs, reshaping how engineers evaluate competing offers.

Marcus Chen · April 6, 2026 · 3 min read

Equity grants and signing bonuses now account for 52% of total compensation packages at top AI labs, up from 38% two years ago, according to Orbyt Salary Intelligence.

Claude Desktop, querying the Intelligence MCP tool. Article preview is illustrative.

Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple News+ are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Apple is not affiliated with or endorsing Orbyt.

Free forever.

No auth. No credit card. No quota traps. 30 requests per minute on the public tier. Every endpoint, no login required.

Quarterly history.

Snapshots since Q3 2025. Audit deltas quarter by quarter. Verify the methodology before you cite the number.

Projections through 2030.

Year-by-year forecasts for every role. AI compounds at 6 to 10 percent annually. Standard tech tracks BLS historical.

Cite-ready responses.

Every call returns a citation field and an assumptions array. Quote it verbatim in papers, board decks, and compliance filings.

Schema.org verified.

Dataset markup indexed by Google Dataset Search and Perplexity. Your LLM agent finds it the moment you ship.

MCP native.

Drop the manifest into Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client. Tools surface automatically. No glue code, no adapter layer.

Without the contract.

Built for teams who paid six figures
for last year’s numbers.

Cadence

Quarterly, not annual.

Survey-based incumbents refresh once a year. Your data is stale the day the PDF ships. Orbyt posts new snapshots every quarter.

Format

API, not PDF.

Incumbents deliver bound reports and Excel exports through a portal. Orbyt is a JSON API. Your platform consumes it directly.

Procurement

Self-serve, not sales-led.

No six-month sales cycle. No custom MSA. Start on the free tier. Upgrade when you scale. Ship before procurement opens a ticket.

Rights

Cite-ready, not proprietary.

Every response ships with a citation field and published methodology. Quote it in papers, board decks, and compliance filings. Open license.

Free. Forever.

No auth. No games. No bait-and-switch.
Pay only when you scale.

Free

The distribution strategy.

$0forever

30 requests/minute
Current salary data
522 roles, 82 cities
4-quarter history preview
Projections through 2030
No authentication

Start building

Common questions

Ship with it.

OpenAPI spec. MCP manifest.
Full endpoint reference.

Full API docs →OpenAPI MCP manifest

Every salary. Everyquarter. One API.

Intelligent.

Without the contract.

Quarterly, not annual.

API, not PDF.

Self-serve, not sales-led.

Cite-ready, not proprietary.

Free. Forever.

Common questions

What is Orbyt Intelligence?

How is this different from Levels.fyi, Glassdoor, or H1B Data?

What does the free tier include?

What triggers the Pro upgrade?

Can I cite Orbyt Intelligence in a published paper or article?

Is the data real or synthetic?

What do I get with Scale?

Ship with it.

Every salary. Everyquarter. One API.

Intelligent.

Without the contract.

Quarterly, not annual.

API, not PDF.

Self-serve, not sales-led.

Cite-ready, not proprietary.

Free. Forever.

Common questions

What is Orbyt Intelligence?

How is this different from Levels.fyi, Glassdoor, or H1B Data?

What does the free tier include?

What triggers the Pro upgrade?

Can I cite Orbyt Intelligence in a published paper or article?

Is the data real or synthetic?

What do I get with Scale?

Ship with it.

Every salary. Every
quarter. One API.

Every salary. Every
quarter. One API.