Recomputed every morning · 2026-10-09

What AI evals roles advertise

Name: AI evals compensation, live postings
Creator: AI Evals Jobs

Compare published pay, straight from the 556 live job postings that advertise an annual USD base band, across 99 companies. These are the bands employers advertise, not what anybody is paid.

Board snapshot: 2026-10-09 · 1110 live roles across 174 employers. The salary sample above is the subset with comparable published pay.

$220k – $330k

The median advertised band. A quarter of these postings sit below $225k at the midpoint, a quarter above $350k. The full range runs from $55k to $930k.

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Choose a shortcut or enter your target. Matches have an advertised annual USD base maximum that reaches that number; this is not a guaranteed offer. Hourly rates, other currencies and on-target pay are excluded.

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How much do AI evals jobs pay?

Across 556 open listings with comparable annual USD base bands on 2026-10-09, the median advertised minimum is USD 220,000 and the median advertised maximum is USD 330,000. These are medians of two endpoints, not measured earnings or a salary promised to an applicant.

How does pay differ by discipline?

Each row uses at least three listings. Seniority, employer and location can differ between groups, so this is a description of current vacancies, not a controlled pay comparison.

Alignment & interpretability: USD 265,000–440,000 per year, median advertised endpoints across 41 listings.
Post-training & RL: USD 241,200–400,000 per year, median advertised endpoints across 141 listings.
Red team & safeguards: USD 285,000–350,000 per year, median advertised endpoints across 80 listings.
Evals & benchmarks: USD 210,000–310,000 per year, median advertised endpoints across 222 listings.
Eval tooling: USD 180,000–240,000 per year, median advertised endpoints across 13 listings.
Human data: USD 150,000–230,000 per year, median advertised endpoints across 59 listings.

Are AI trainer hourly rates included?

No. Hourly rates, other currencies and variable compensation are excluded from this annual USD comparison. See AI trainer jobs and hourly pay for that separate market. Published rates do not guarantee a supply of paid hours.

To assess an offer, compare the role’s level, location, base pay and any equity separately. Use the filters below to find the corresponding open jobs, then confirm the terms on the employer’s application page.

How does your base compare with what these roles advertise?

Type your current base and the page compares it with the midpoint of each of the 556 live postings on this board that advertise an annual USD base band. This is a comparison against advertised bands, not against what people in these roles are actually paid, which no posting discloses.

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1110Live roles

174Companies hiring

181Remote-friendly

$330kMedian top of band

240Posted in 30 days

Alignment & interpretability has the highest advertised median midpoint

A $150k gap separates it from human data at the bottom. These cohorts differ in employer, location and seniority; this is a description of advertised bands, not a pay premium for choosing a discipline.

published bandmedian of midpoints

Alignment & interpretabilityn=41

$265k–$440k

Post-training & RLn=141

$241k–$400k

Red team & safeguardsn=80

$285k–$350k

Evals & benchmarksn=222

$210k–$310k

Eval toolingn=13

$180k–$240k

Human datan=59

$150k–$230k

By company

Companies with at least three published bands. The bar spans their lowest advertised floor to their highest advertised ceiling, so a wide bar means they hire across a wide seniority range, not that any one role pays that spread. Rows marked nonprofit cannot grant equity, so the band you see is not missing a stock component. Other employers may also offer equity or bonuses; those amounts are not included here.

lowest floor to highest ceilingmedian of midpoints

Resolutionn=3

$141k–$930k

Thinking Machines Labn=15

$250k–$475k

Magicn=3

$275k–$550k

OpenAIn=58

$198k–$536k

Anthropicn=87

$210k–$850k

Coheren=13

$160k–$535k

Wayven=13

$209k–$512k

Mercorn=13

$160k–$500k

Runway MLn=4

$240k–$370k

Character AIn=6

$150k–$400k

Perplexityn=8

$200k–$485k

Sunon=3

$220k–$383k

xAIn=15

$100k–$600k

Prime Intellectn=17

$150k–$350k

Decagonn=5

$165k–$400k

AfterQueryn=9

$150k–$450k

Similen=6

$150k–$400k

Periodic Labsn=4

$225k–$350k

Redditn=4

$230k–$410k

FAR AI nonprofitn=7

$150k–$450k

Airbnbn=4

$212k–$365k

Handshake AIn=5

$135k–$350k

Applied Intuitionn=9

$125k–$423k

Waymon=33

$130k–$431k

Snorkel AIn=6

$180k–$425k

Cartesian=7

$160k–$350k

Abridgen=4

$188k–$290k

Crosbyn=3

$200k–$360k

Together AIn=4

$200k–$290k

Scale AIn=17

$151k–$378k

Nuron=7

$132k–$387k

Gray Swan AIn=4

$160k–$280k

Basetenn=4

$200k–$400k

Agility Roboticsn=3

$168k–$304k

Atomsn=3

$185k–$345k

Databricksn=7

$165k–$350k

Nebiusn=3

$195k–$262k

Apollo Researchn=6

$135k–$385k

CoreWeave (Weights & Biases)n=7

$165k–$333k

LangChainn=11

$145k–$280k

Labelboxn=4

$140k–$300k

Gleann=3

$140k–$280k

Fireworks AIn=7

$150k–$320k

Distyl AIn=4

$150k–$250k

Nimble Roboticsn=4

$95k–$300k

Deepgramn=4

$150k–$240k

Astera Instituten=5

$100k–$350k

Sunday Roboticsn=5

$70k–$230k

HUDn=11

$100k–$295k

10a Labsn=4

$80k–$200k

HumanSignaln=6

$55k–$180k

The highest bands on the board

Role	Company	Band
Research Scientist	Resolution	$141k – $930k
Research Engineer	Resolution	$141k – $930k
Research Scientist (Philosophy)	Resolution	$236k – $930k
Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)	Anthropic	$500k – $850k
Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)	Anthropic	$500k – $850k
Research Engineer, Computer Use	Anthropic	$500k – $850k
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)	Anthropic	$500k – $850k
Research Engineer, Discovery	Anthropic	$350k – $850k

The bands are so wide they barely mean anything

These are single job postings, not seniority ladders. A range this wide tells a candidate almost nothing about what the offer will be, which is worth knowing before you spend a week interviewing.

Role	Company	Band	Spread
Research Scientist	Resolution	$141k – $930k	$789k
Research Engineer	Resolution	$141k – $930k	$789k
Research Scientist (Philosophy)	Resolution	$236k – $930k	$694k
Research Engineer, Discovery	Anthropic	$350k – $850k	$500k
Research Engineer, Knowledge Team	Anthropic	$350k – $850k	$500k

34% mention equity in the pay text we collect

191 of 556 postings with comparable salary bands mention equity in collected pay text or stored summaries. 1 contain a quantified equity reference in that text. This is not a full-description audit: a missing mention does not establish that the employer offers no equity.

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What the band leaves out

These comparisons use advertised annual USD base pay. Equity, annual bonuses and signing payments are separate components; their value and availability depend on the actual offer.

A nonprofitOwnership equity in the nonprofit is not part of the package. Confirm bonuses and other cash terms separately.

A private companyAsk how the grant is valued, what vests each year and when employees can sell. Quoted equity value is not necessarily spendable cash.

A public companyShares have a market price, but their value changes. Check units, vesting and trading restrictions before comparing an annual stock component.

Separate guaranteed cash, target bonuses, annual vesting and one-off payments. External compensation benchmarks cannot establish the package for a particular listing.

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Only 60% of these jobs say what they pay

663 of the 1110 live postings state pay in some form. 447 say nothing at all and make you ask.

Of the 663 that do state something, 556 give an annual USD base band, and those are the only ones every figure above is computed from. The other 107 are excluded for being a different kind of number rather than for withholding one: 78 quote an hourly or daily rate, 19 publish in a currency other than dollars, 10 quote on-target earnings, which include commission or bonus. Those employers published their pay; it simply cannot be averaged with the rest without quietly distorting every number here.

Everything above is drawn only from the 556, so if the employers who publish a band skew toward the better-paying end, and they usually do, treat these as an optimistic read rather than a market average.

Method. Every figure recomputed from the 1110 roles live on this board today, collected from company career pages. Annual USD base only: hourly contract rates and non-USD bands are excluded rather than converted, because mixing them would quietly distort every number here. Bands advertised as on-target earnings or target cash are excluded for the same reason, since they include commission and bonus; those roles still show their figure, marked as on-target. Equity and bonus are excluded; their value is not established by these advertised base bands. That cuts both ways at the top of the table: a nonprofit cannot grant equity at all, so its published band is not missing a stock component, while a lab's is the cash portion of a larger package. Neither statement covers bonus or other terms, which depend on the offer. Nonprofits are marked wherever they appear, and the flag is set from each organization's own statement of its structure rather than inferred, because getting it wrong would misstate what an employer pays. Track medians use the median of each posting's midpoint. Company bars span the lowest floor to the highest ceiling that company advertises. Categories need three or more published bands to appear at all. This page rebuilds every morning, so these numbers move.

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