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Waymo salaries
Waymo advertised pay for 13 roles across 170 job postings on its own job board. The highest midpoint is Lawyer at $280,500. These are advertised base-pay bands, not salaries anyone was confirmed to be paid.
What Waymo advertises, by role
Ranked by midpoint. Each range is what the company advertised for the role in its own job postings.
| Role | Midpoint | Advertised range |
|---|---|---|
| Lawyer | $280,500 | $251,000–$368,000 |
| Research Scientist | $259,250 | $204,000–$310,000 |
| Data Scientist | $257,000 | $170,000–$310,000 |
| Software Engineer | $238,000 | $170,000–$431,000 |
| DevOps Engineer | $238,000 | $170,000–$356,000 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $238,000 | $170,000–$368,000 |
| Recruiter | $237,750 | $137,000–$352,000 |
| Product Manager | $228,000 | $204,000–$297,000 |
| QA Engineer | $219,000 | $177,000–$284,000 |
| Financial Analyst | $205,500 | $168,000–$352,000 |
| Partner Manager | $197,500 | $159,000–$218,000 |
| Accountant | $177,500 | $130,000–$196,000 |
| Technical Program Manager | $177,500 | $107,016–$336,000 |
Waymo pay by location
Roles where Waymo's advertised range differs by metro — a San Francisco or New York posting against the same role elsewhere. Only metros with at least two postings, and only roles that actually diverge, are shown.
Research Scientist
| Metro | Midpoint | Advertised range |
|---|---|---|
| SF Bay Area | $259,250 | $204,000–$310,000 |
| New York | $238,000 | $204,000–$310,000 |
| Seattle | $259,250 | $204,000–$310,000 |
Machine Learning Engineer
| Metro | Midpoint | Advertised range |
|---|---|---|
| SF Bay Area | $238,000 | $170,000–$368,000 |
| New York | $238,000 | $175,000–$310,000 |
| Seattle | $195,000 | $175,000–$310,000 |
Read this before quoting a number. These are the ranges the company itself advertised in its job postings, which US pay-transparency law requires it to publish. They are not salaries anyone was confirmed to be paid, and they are not survey percentiles.
Low is the lowest floor seen across every posting and high is the highest ceiling, so one company's whole spread — junior to staff, and every city it pays differently in — sits between those two numbers. Midpoint is the median of each posting band's own midpoint.
Base pay only. Equity, bonus and benefits are excluded, and at the companies where equity is most of the offer that makes these figures a floor rather than a total. Figures are US postings in US dollars; postings in other currencies were dropped rather than converted at a rate we would have had to invent.
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