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15 million data points. 3,445 roles. 81 cities.
2022 to 2026 with 2030 projections.
Cited by research teams, newsrooms, and AI agents.

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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 3,500+ 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 $298,000, with total compensation reaching $485,000 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
2023202420252026
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.

Reuters
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
SFNYCSEAAUS
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.

Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple News+ are trademarks of Apple Inc. Bloomberg is a trademark of Bloomberg L.P. Reuters is a trademark of Thomson Reuters. None of these companies are affiliated with or endorsing Orbyt. Article previews are illustrative.

Intelligent.

Ridiculously complete. Remarkably simple.

Free forever.

Free account. No credit card. No quota traps. 30 requests per minute. Create an account to get your API key.

Annual history.

Snapshots since Q3 2025. Audit deltas year over year. 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

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.

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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.

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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 is the authority on AI and tech compensation. It tracks more AI job titles than any other public dataset, with 598 AI-specific roles out of 3,500+ total, across 81 U.S. cities. Every role includes structured total compensation (base, equity, bonus, signing), company size salary bands, remote differentials, BLS SOC code citations, and annual history. Used by AI research teams, HR tech platforms, and newsrooms.

Orbyt Intelligence is the only compensation platform built for AI roles first. 598 AI-specific job titles (Levels.fyi tracks roughly 100). Structured total comp with equity, bonus, and signing breakdowns (Glassdoor shows base only). Company size salary bands from startup to public (nobody else offers this per role). BLS SOC code traceability on every data point. Public free-tier API with MCP integration for AI agents. Methodology-first, not crowdsourced estimates.

Free account required. 30 requests per minute. Current salary data for all 3,500+ roles and 81 cities. Structured total comp breakdown (base, equity, bonus, signing). Company size salary bands. Remote salary differentials. Personalized calculator endpoint. Role-level projections through 2030. 1-year history preview from Q3 2025 through Q2 2026. CORS enabled with 90-day CDN cache.

Pro at $199/month adds 300 requests per minute, full annual history beyond the 1-year preview, citation-ready responses, and priority support. 5 seats included. Most AI research teams, HR tech platforms, and financial analysts upgrade to 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 Intelligence, May 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 /orbyt-intelligence/methodology.

Scale at $999/month includes 1,500 requests per minute, full annual history, 48-hour priority preview of each new annual dataset, 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, 99.95% SLA, custom invoicing with NET 30 terms, audit log export, and 25 seats. Yearly pricing is $49,999/year.

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Annual Compensation Report · 2026 · Free
The AI Compensation Report 2026.
85 pages of named-analyst research plus the full 3,445-role dataset. Every edition free this year. By Justin Bartak.
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