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Software & Data in NYC Salaries

Live posted base-salary benchmarks for software & data roles in NYC.

714 openings with posted pay · Updated Sep 5, 2026

Median base salary

$235k

Posted range midpoint

Typical range

$200k–$281k

25th to 75th percentile

Openings with pay

714

84% of 855 live openings

Companies disclosing

86

From their own postings

Annual base salary in USD. Equity and bonus excluded.

Highest-paying live openings

Sorted by posted range
1
Research Engineer, Model Evaluations

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Staff / Principal

$500k–$850k
2
Engineering Manager, Research Data Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Manager

$405k–$850k
3
Engineering Manager, Research Tools

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Manager

$405k–$850k
4
Research Engineer, Knowledge Team

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$850k
5
Performance Engineer, Inference Systems

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$850k
6
Performance Engineer, GPU

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$280k–$850k
7
TPU Kernel Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$280k–$850k
8
Performance Engineer

Anthropic · New York, NY · Senior

$280k–$850k
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Methodology

BuildList pulls salary ranges from company applicant tracking systems hourly. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

Non-USD pay is converted to USD, and hourly, weekly, and monthly pay is annualized. Figures are medians and quartiles of each posting's range midpoint, weighted by currently open roles.

Base salary only. Equity and bonus are excluded. Groups with fewer than 30 salaried openings are withheld.

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