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Published salary ranges at openai

Measured 2026-10-24 from ashby. 631 postings carried a pay range; every number below is what the company itself published, not an estimate.

Median
$307,500
p25
$247,750
p75
$366,000
p90
$418,500
Remote
7%

By role family

Role familyPostingsMedian midpoint
engineering244$339,000
support / ops85$247,000
other70$302,250
finance / legal43$247,000
data / ml41$404,000
product38$283,500
sales32$247,000
marketing31$282,000
security26$355,500
design21$277,500

Role family comes from the job title, so a "Member of Technical Staff" lands in engineering while an odd title falls into other. Midpoint is (low + high) / 2 after annualising and converting to USD.

Highest published ranges

TitleLocationLowHigh
Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Foundations, SearchSan Francisco$380,000$850,000
Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Search - Knowledge GraphsSan Francisco$380,000$850,000
Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Search IntegritySan Francisco$380,000$850,000
Engineering Manager, MLESan Francisco$500,000$555,000
Engineering Manager, Core ExperimentationSeattle$510,000$536,000
Principal Software Engineer, ChatGPT Education and LearningSan Francisco$459,000$536,000
Data Engineering Manager, Growth & RevenueSan Francisco$459,000$536,000
Principal Software Engineer, ProductivitySan Francisco$459,000$536,000
Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical SuSan Francisco$441,000$515,000
Engineering Manager, PreparednessSan Francisco$445,000$510,000
Engineering Manager, Rosalind WorkbenchSan Francisco$401,000$536,000
Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization AI/MLSan Francisco$381,000$555,000

Questions people actually ask

What does openai publish as an annual salary?

Across 631 postings that state a pay range, the median midpoint is $307,500. The middle 50% sits between $247,750 and $366,000, and the 90th percentile is $418,500. All figures are annualised and converted to USD.

How many openai postings actually publish pay?

631 of the postings we read from ashby carried a range on the day we measured (2026-10-24). The rest did not publish pay at all, so they are not in these numbers.

Which roles at openai publish the highest salaries?

engineering is the largest family in this sample (244 postings, median $339,000). The table above lists every family we saw and the highest individual ranges.

Is this what openai actually pays?

No. This is what the company itself published in its job postings, normalised to a yearly USD range. Real offers vary by level, location and equity, and many postings omit pay entirely.

Get the data

These 631 rows are part of one CSV covering every company we read: the full dataset (salary-ranges-full.csv) under CC BY 4.0. Or pull it into Python:

pip install https://sjdfi0wjvosdju9.github.io/packages/salaryranges-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl
import salaryranges
salaryranges.by_company("openai")

If you want the same numbers refreshed on a schedule, including the postings that never publish pay, that is the paid part: ATS Job Feed ($0.0015 per returned job).