Recomputed every morning · 2026-09-04
What do these jobs pay, by city?
Median published midpoint across 4 cities with enough bands to rank. Base cash only, from 219 postings that say what they pay.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London, UK | $313k | 19 | 6 | 108 |
| San Francisco, CA | $300k | 139 | 31 | 301 |
| New York, NY | $292k | 45 | 21 | 150 |
| Seattle, WA | $275k | 10 | 5 | 46 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto, ON | $393k | 8 | 1 | Cohere 100% of bands |
| Redwood City, CA | $313k | 6 | 2 | Character AI 83% of bands |
| Palo Alto, CA | $310k | 19 | 3 | xAI 58% of bands |
| Sunnyvale, CA | $297k | 16 | 2 | Wayve 69% of bands |
| Boston, MA | $208k | 6 | 2 | LangChain 83% of bands |
Read any of these as that employer's pay rather than that city's.
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