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xAI salaries
xAI advertised pay for 10 roles, read from 44 postings on its own careers page. The highest midpoint is Software Engineer at $310,000. xAI doesn't post on a job board we can read a structured pay field from, so these were extracted from the posting text and checked against it — a separate, weaker source than the rest of the site, never blended with it.
What xAI advertises, by role
Ranked by midpoint. Each range is what xAI stated on its own careers-page postings, read from the posting text and checked against it word-for-word.
| Role | Midpoint | Advertised range |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | $310,000 | $100,000–$450,000 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $310,000 | $180,000–$440,000 |
| DevOps Engineer | $310,000 | $100,000–$440,000 |
| Lawyer | $233,750 | $200,000–$275,000 |
| Data Engineer | $215,000 | $172,000–$258,000 |
| Information Security Analyst | $192,000 | $100,000–$258,000 |
| Business Operations Manager | $151,000 | $122,000–$180,000 |
| Technical Program Manager | $127,500 | $110,000–$145,000 |
| People Operations Specialist | $126,250 | $110,000–$140,000 |
| Paralegal | $125,000 | $100,000–$150,000 |
xAI pay by location
Roles where xAI'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.
DevOps Engineer
| Metro | Midpoint | Advertised range |
|---|---|---|
| SF Bay Area | $310,000 | $100,000–$440,000 |
| Austin | $197,000 | $100,000–$258,000 |
How this differs from the rest of the site. This company doesn't post on a job board we can read a structured pay field from, so these ranges were read from the text of its own careers-page postings. Every figure here was checked to appear word-for-word on the posting it came from — but it is a weaker, separately-kept source than the pages built from a machine-readable pay field, and the two are never mixed.
Low is the lowest floor and high the highest ceiling seen across the postings read; midpoint is the median of each posting's own midpoint. Where a role's advertised pay differs by city, the metros are broken out below it.
Base pay only — equity, bonus and sign-on are excluded, and at these employers equity is often most of the offer, so treat the figure as a floor. US postings in US dollars.
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