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Role taxonomy, skill premiums, skill half-life, comp by stage,
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Compensation

AI Engineer Salaries Hit Record Highs in Q2

Senior compensation packages now top half a million dollars in San Francisco, according to Orbyt Intelligence data covering 3,445 roles across 81 U.S. cities.

Sarah Lin · April 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Q3 ’25Q4 ’25Q1 ’26Q2 ’26
Senior AI Engineer base salary, San Francisco. Source: Orbyt Intelligence.

Median base salary for senior AI engineers in San Francisco now stands at $229,000, with total compensation reaching $324,000 including equity and bonus, according to Orbyt Intelligence. That is 2.4× the national median.

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Equity Now Half of Senior AI Pay Packages

Stock grants and signing bonuses have outpaced base salary growth at top-tier AI labs, according to Orbyt Intelligence annual data.

Marcus Chen · April 6, 2026 · 3 min read
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Equity as a share of senior AI compensation. Source: Orbyt Intelligence.

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 Intelligence.

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Geography

San Francisco Pulls Away From Other AI Hubs

Bay Area senior AI engineers now out-earn their New York and Seattle peers by a wider margin than at any point in the last decade.

Priya Raman · April 6, 2026 · 3 min read
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Senior AI Engineer total compensation by metro. Source: Orbyt Intelligence.

San Francisco senior AI engineers now earn 34% more than New York peers and 89% more than Austin, according to Orbyt Intelligence.

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

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Intelligent.

Ridiculously complete. Remarkably simple.

Six engines.

Role taxonomy, skill premiums, skill half-life, comp by stage, company signals, hiring velocity. Each engine has one job. Together they answer every comp question.

MCP server.

Six locked tools. Decision-Ready Responses. Stdio + HTTP transports. Drop into Claude Code, ChatGPT, or any MCP client.

Bloomberg-grade lineage.

Every data point carries a stable data_point_id. Resolve it to the full source trail: BLS, H-1B LCA, pay-transparency postings, community, with weights and reconciliation rules. Per-point lineage is live for ingested data (Canada and UK today); US rows populate as the pipeline backfills.

Annual history + 2030 projections.

Quarterly snapshots since Q3 2025. Year-by-year forecasts through 2030. Audit deltas, verify the methodology, cite the number with confidence.

Cite-ready responses.

Every call returns a methodology version, a citation field, a data_point_id, and confidence intervals. Quote it verbatim in papers, board decks, and compliance filings.

CLI + webhooks.

@orbyt/cli for terminal + CI/CD. Webhooks for data.refreshed, data.corrected, velocity.changed. Stripe-compatible signatures. Local-dev tunneling via the CLI.

Without the contract.

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

Cadence

Annual, not annual.

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

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 Build at $99/mo. Upgrade when you scale. Ship before procurement opens a ticket.

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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.

Common questions

Orbyt Intelligence. AI compensation, decoded. It ships as six engines for the AI labor market: AI Role Taxonomy (598 roles, BLS SOC mapped), AI Skill Premiums (dollar premium per skill), AI Skill Half-Life (decay curves on each premium), AI Comp by Funding Stage (seed through public), AI Company Signals (hiring intent + comp pressure + attrition), and AI Hiring Velocity (posting volume + time-to-fill + salary drift). All six surface through 20 REST endpoints and one MCP server with six locked tools. Lineage on every response. Used by AI research teams, HR tech platforms, and newsrooms.

Orbyt Intelligence is the only compensation platform built for AI roles first, and the only one with six purpose-built engines instead of a single salary lookup. 598 specialized job titles (Levels.fyi tracks roughly 100). Quantified skill premiums with confidence intervals and decay curves (no one else publishes these). Funding-stage compensation bands from seed to public per role. Bloomberg-grade provenance via /lineage on every data point. MCP server returning Decision-Ready Responses with citation.request_id traceability: drop into Claude Code, ChatGPT, or any MCP client.

AI Role Taxonomy resolves role identities (598 roles, eight families, eight seniority bands, BLS SOC codes, related-role graph). AI Skill Premiums quantifies the dollar premium each skill commands by role and city, with 95% CIs. AI Skill Half-Life models how fast each premium is decaying using exponential, logistic, or plateau curves. AI Comp by Funding Stage breaks comp down across seven stages from seed to public, with explicit equity-vs-cash math. AI Company Signals tracks per-company hiring intent, comp pressure, attrition risk, AI maturity, and pay transparency posture. AI Hiring Velocity measures posting volume, time-to-fill, salary drift, and competitive intensity per role × city.

The MCP server at /api/v1/intelligence/mcp is a JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint exposing six locked tools: list_capabilities, analyze_compensation, analyze_skills, analyze_market, discover_roles_and_cities, find_adjacent_opportunities. Every tool returns a Decision-Ready Response with a quotable answer sentence, primary + supporting data, methodology citation, follow-up suggestions, and honest limitations. Stdio transport for Claude Code, HTTP transport for any agent. Same API key. Pro plan and above. See /orbyt-intelligence/mcp for the full integration guide.

Build tier at $99/mo. 60 requests per minute. AI Role Taxonomy engine (598 roles, 81 cities, BLS SOC mapping). Projections through 2030. 1-year history preview from Q3 2025 through Q2 2026. Personalized calculator + search endpoints. CORS enabled. Upgrade to Pro for the other five engines, MCP, and full annual history.

Pro at $299/month adds 300 requests per minute, full annual history beyond the 1-year preview, citation-ready responses, priority support, the MCP server, and the /lineage provenance endpoint. 5 seats included. Most AI research teams, HR tech platforms, and financial analysts upgrade to Pro once they need audit-level history access or want to wire Orbyt into Claude Code via MCP.

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 Intelligence, July 2026. https://www.orbytjobs.ai/intelligence"

Real. Sourced from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, H-1B Labor Condition Applications from the Department of Labor, state pay-transparency job postings, and community submissions. Cost-of-living adjustments use BEA Regional Price Parities. Full methodology is published at /orbyt-intelligence/methodology.

Scale at $1,999/month includes 1,500 requests per minute, full annual history, 48-hour priority preview of each new annual dataset, the AI Company Signals engine, webhooks, dedicated support, and custom data requests. 15 seats included. 99.9% uptime target.

Enterprise at $4,999/month includes 5,000 requests per minute, 1-week priority access to each new annual dataset, a 99.95% uptime target, custom invoicing with NET 30 terms, audit log export, and 25 seats. Yearly pricing is $49,999/year.

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Six engines. One MCP server. CLI for terminal + CI/CD.
Webhooks for events. OpenAPI spec. Full reference.

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