Research Scientist salary, by company

14 companies advertise a Research Scientist role. Midpoints run from $182,500 to $608,000.

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Every range here is one the employer advertised in its own job postings, published to comply with US pay-transparency law. For most companies that is the structured pay field their job board publishes; for a handful that don't run one, it was read from the posting text and checked word-for-word against it. Each company's figure comes from one source or the other, never a blend of both, and nothing here is estimated or modelled by us.

Low is the lowest floor seen across every posting and high is the highest ceiling, so a whole spread — junior to staff, and every city paid differently — 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 where equity is most of the offer that makes these figures a floor rather than a total. US postings in US dollars; postings in other currencies were dropped rather than converted at a rate we would have had to invent.

These are advertised ranges — not salaries anyone was confirmed to be paid, and not survey wages. A midpoint resting on a handful of postings is an anecdote, not a market rate.

What companies advertise for a Research Scientist

Ranked by midpoint.

CompanyMidpointAdvertised range
Netflix$608,000$466,000–$750,000
Anthropic$600,000$285,000–$850,000
OpenAI$418,750$198,000–$585,000
Datadog$310,500$276,000–$400,000
Databricks$305,000$190,000–$350,000
Vercel$290,000$250,000–$330,000
Snowflake$287,600$176,000–$339,200
Samsara$261,718$170,170–$357,500
Waymo$259,250$204,000–$310,000
Scale AI$245,700$180,600–$363,000
Togetherai$242,500$160,000–$290,000
Elastic$206,350$133,100–$303,500
Lyft$188,100$140,800–$242,000
Amazon$182,500$142,800–$226,100

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The other half is saying it out loud without flinching. ChannelPulse plays the interviewer, asks the compensation question the way a recruiter does, and scores how you answered.

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