Where do AI evals jobs pay the most?

San Francisco, CA has the highest median published midpoint at $300k, across 367 postings from 49 different employers. A city is ranked only when six or more postings publish a band, at least three employers are behind them, and no single employer supplies half or more, so that one company's pay policy cannot appear as a city's.

What do AI evals jobs pay in San Francisco?

The median published midpoint in San Francisco is $300k, from 367 postings.

What do these jobs pay in New York?

The median published midpoint in New York is $300k, from 175 postings.

Does this include equity?

No. Every figure is annual base cash. Equity, bonus and sign-on are excluded because postings almost never state them.

Recomputed every morning · 2026-10-20

What do these jobs pay, by city?

Name: AI evaluation and post-training pay by city
Creator: AI Evals Jobs
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Median published midpoint across 5 cities with enough bands to rank. Advertised base only, from the 566 postings that state an annual USD band.

Ranked by median published midpoint

A city is ranked only if six or more postings in it publish a band, those bands come from at least three different employers, and no single employer supplies half of them. The employer count is in the table so you can check that yourself.

City	Median midpoint	Bands	Employers	Open roles
San Francisco, CA	$300k	367	49	476
New York, NY	$300k	175	33	229
London, UK	$300k	40	10	152
US	$288k	11	5	35
Sunnyvale, CA	$275k	27	4	43

Places where one employer is the market

These cleared the band floor and then failed the other two tests. Each has enough published bands to compute a median and not enough different employers behind it for that median to describe a city. They are listed rather than hidden, because the concentration is the interesting part: a suburb that appears to outpay San Francisco usually turns out to be one company that happens to be headquartered there.

Place	Median	Bands	Employers	Most of them from
Paris, France	$393k	7	1	Cohere 100% of bands
Toronto, ON	$393k	12	1	Cohere 100% of bands
Montreal, QC	$393k	8	1	Cohere 100% of bands
Seattle, WA	$388k	36	9	Anthropic 64% of bands
Palo Alto, CA	$310k	21	5	xAI 57% of bands
*hq - San Francisco, CA	$270k	6	1	Cartesia 100% of bands
Washington, DC	$265k	30	5	Anthropic 63% of bands
Mountain View, CA	$256k	46	7	Waymo 61% of bands
Berkeley, CA	$244k	10	4	FAR AI 50% of bands
Redwood City, CA	$233k	12	3	Character AI 50% of bands
Boston, MA	$209k	8	3	LangChain 75% of bands
San Mateo, CA	$205k	7	2	Fireworks AI 86% of bands
Singapore	$165k	11	2	HUD 91% of bands

Read any of these as that employer's pay rather than that city's.

Method. Median of each posting's midpoint, computed from the 566 live roles that publish an annual USD band. Hourly contract rates and non-USD bands are excluded rather than converted. A role listing several cities counts once in each. To be ranked, a city needs six published bands, at least three distinct employers behind them, and no single employer supplying half or more. That last test exists because without it three Bay Area suburbs sat above San Francisco on the strength of one company each. Equity and bonus are excluded; their value is not established by these advertised base bands. Select a city above to browse its matching roles.

What changed on this board this weekWhat changed since last Thursday: new roles, roles that closed, and pay moves.

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