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Compensation data for frontier tech

Real salaries from H1B filings, public bands, and community submissions across space, AI, robotics, and defense.

19,159 paid roles
1,575 hiring companies
16 positions tracked

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Software

Median compensation across the 5 frontier tech industries

AI
$212k
1,900 jobs · 587 companies
VC
$215k
9 jobs · 5 companies
ROBOTICS
$191k
114 jobs · 28 companies
DEFENSE
$193k
666 jobs · 28 companies
FRONTIER
$195k
902 jobs · 188 companies
SPACE
$162k
786 jobs · 77 companies

Featured companies

Median base salary (USD) by company × position

Annualized base from active job postings · jobs in chip below each cell

CompanyBusiness & FinanceSoftwareAerospace EngineeringOperationsSales & MarketingMechanicalSupply ChainSecurityTechnicianLegal & CompliancePeople & HRElectricalManufacturingAvionicsDesignResearchTotal
Anduril Industries logo
Anduril Industries
DEFENSE
$165k
172
$210k
408
$170k
241
$150k
81
$193k
14
$166k
138
$150k
112
$183k
50
$100k
66
$170k
23
$141k
53
$170k
266
$149k
167
$222k
49
1840
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
AI
$318k
59
$363k
67
$425k
47
$340k
14
$288k
43
$353k
3
$290k
3
$318k
18
$330k
8
$293k
11
279
Archer Aviation logo
Archer Aviation
SPACE
$150k
21
$175k
24
$181k
18
$151k
8
$167k
36
$143k
5
$171k
5
$128k
4
$125k
4
$194k
8
$158k
7
$181k
4
148
Astranis logo
Astranis
SPACE
$146k
10
$146k
22
$133k
12
$178k
3
$98k
5
$121k
26
$140k
3
$184k
6
$82k
5
$145k
6
$135k
17
$110k
6
$124k
16
137
Aurora Innovation logo
Aurora Innovation
AI
$185k
14
$216k
62
$201k
10
$212k
3
$202k
3
$186k
12
$204k
8
$201k
8
$212k
5
$204k
13
144
Blue Origin logo
Blue Origin
SPACE
$174k
68
$198k
99
$145k
89
$204k
9
$204k
3
$145k
153
$134k
31
$67k
16
$134k
9
$157k
37
$134k
34
$157k
76
$114k
4
633
Boeing logo
Boeing
SPACE
$143k
15
$176k
14
$149k
26
$126k
13
$176k
6
$80k
13
$139k
5
$131k
6
$127k
39
145
Databricks logo
Databricks
AI
$215k
97
$222k
105
$226k
74
$215k
31
$215k
34
$223k
6
$214k
3
$228k
5
$114k
7
$215k
9
$172k
3
379
Harvey AI logo
Harvey AI
AI
$186k
39
$255k
41
$195k
7
$189k
12
$218k
23
$273k
9
$249k
35
$164k
9
$230k
11
190
menta logo
menta
SPACE
$65k
174
$47k
6
180
Northrop Grumman logo
Northrop Grumman
SPACE
$118k
43
$164k
26
$131k
45
$148k
4
$108k
13
$130k
19
$118k
3
$82k
15
$147k
4
$143k
9
$112k
17
$183k
10
210
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
AI
$249k
86
$308k
174
$285k
79
$259k
36
$276k
38
$259k
17
$262k
10
$310k
35
$333k
5
$272k
25
$247k
11
$356k
8
$286k
4
$335k
4
$290k
9
$370k
35
576
Palantir Technologies logo
Palantir Technologies
DEFENSE
$121k
37
$168k
67
$119k
12
$168k
4
$156k
8
$168k
23
$168k
6
$89k
5
$140k
8
172
Relativity Space logo
Relativity Space
SPACE
$139k
9
$183k
21
$152k
27
$145k
3
$157k
107
$133k
8
$82k
8
$177k
8
$144k
29
$176k
29
$183k
3
256
Rocket Lab logo
Rocket Lab
SPACE
$129k
13
$141k
20
$130k
22
$144k
4
$123k
31
$108k
10
$110k
3
$61k
7
$156k
8
$128k
11
$136k
10
144
Scale AI logo
Scale AI
AI
$219k
30
$256k
38
$248k
12
$217k
9
$173k
14
$256k
5
$93k
3
$279k
8
$172k
4
$243k
10
135
Shield AI logo
Shield AI
DEFENSE
$140k
35
$185k
59
$150k
37
$118k
12
$26k
7
$171k
51
$163k
8
$125k
10
$140k
17
$164k
4
$175k
5
$144k
17
$155k
11
$186k
15
288
Sierra Space logo
Sierra Space
SPACE
$187k
45
$154k
30
$141k
27
$141k
3
$138k
16
$106k
29
$62k
13
$161k
3
$117k
8
$190k
6
$104k
14
$140k
12
208
SpaceX logo
SpaceX
SPACE
$103k
91
$138k
250
$138k
89
$109k
57
$123k
32
$108k
120
$93k
49
$138k
19
$60k
83
$153k
13
$93k
12
$115k
80
$99k
43
$141k
54
993
Talkiatry logo
Talkiatry
FRONTIER
$198k
139
$144k
4
$159k
10
$199k
4
161
The Aerospace Corporation logo
The Aerospace Corporation
SPACE
$155k
69
$155k
33
$172k
115
$172k
13
$157k
34
$119k
5
$188k
8
$189k
3
$189k
29
$165k
6
$189k
3
$134k
9
334
True Anomaly logo
True Anomaly
DEFENSE
$131k
18
$209k
26
$173k
23
$155k
6
$160k
39
$109k
8
$190k
5
$85k
3
$180k
4
$143k
5
$168k
27
$240k
3
172
Vast logo
Vast
SPACE
$153k
17
$214k
5
$145k
14
$160k
4
$161k
4
$158k
30
$146k
5
$59k
9
$156k
14
$154k
24
134
Waymo logo
Waymo
FRONTIER
$212k
49
$232k
157
$222k
30
$199k
18
$235k
7
$270k
9
$212k
14
$134k
5
$281k
9
$243k
6
$224k
6
$227k
10
$233k
6
$232k
7
335
Zipline logo
Zipline
ROBOTICS
$123k
9
$223k
36
$178k
19
$113k
12
$155k
7
$155k
7
$69k
8
$191k
8
$153k
4
$185k
11
$146k
8
134

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