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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.

21,722 paid roles
1,678 hiring companies
16 positions tracked

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Software

Median compensation across the 5 frontier tech industries

AI
$213k
2,103 jobs · 623 companies
VC
$208k
7 jobs · 5 companies
ROBOTICS
$193k
123 jobs · 40 companies
DEFENSE
$193k
792 jobs · 31 companies
FRONTIER
$192k
982 jobs · 211 companies
SPACE
$172k
887 jobs · 76 companies

Featured companies

Median base salary (USD) by company × position

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

CompanyBusiness & FinanceOperationsSoftwareAerospace EngineeringSales & MarketingPeople & HRLegal & ComplianceMechanicalTechnicianSecurityDesignManufacturingElectricalSupply ChainAvionicsResearchTotal
Alpaca Health logo
Alpaca Health
FRONTIER
$195k
204
$225k
3
$85k
17
$49k
15
243
Anduril Industries logo
Anduril Industries
DEFENSE
$183k
118
$150k
153
$193k
495
$170k
296
$172k
17
$146k
67
$181k
16
$170k
152
$100k
73
$150k
27
$193k
6
$147k
189
$170k
178
$150k
144
$193k
33
$192k
7
1971
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
AI
$290k
63
$343k
30
$403k
104
$600k
41
$301k
50
$251k
4
$293k
11
$328k
3
$335k
9
$273k
50
$363k
3
$390k
3
$363k
15
389
Blue Origin logo
Blue Origin
SPACE
$149k
57
$161k
21
$198k
111
$157k
263
$188k
5
$134k
14
$161k
11
$145k
154
$75k
37
$141k
6
$98k
5
$134k
72
$174k
48
$134k
26
$157k
122
952
Databricks logo
Databricks
AI
$216k
113
$213k
6
$218k
132
$216k
98
$216k
44
$168k
6
$248k
6
$228k
3
$231k
7
$216k
12
433
Fivetran logo
Fivetran
AI
$194k
52
$146k
15
$192k
32
$212k
7
$196k
40
$193k
10
$227k
4
$239k
4
164
Harvey AI logo
Harvey AI
AI
$201k
66
$194k
25
$245k
50
$167k
9
$183k
64
$199k
6
$270k
45
$235k
22
$187k
10
302
menta logo
menta
SPACE
$65k
149
$58k
4
$48k
3
$47k
4
164
Northrop Grumman logo
Northrop Grumman
SPACE
$118k
26
$144k
11
$143k
30
$143k
66
$166k
3
$112k
8
$71k
12
$95k
3
$119k
11
$143k
12
$118k
9
$190k
6
200
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
AI
$238k
73
$266k
58
$308k
180
$293k
77
$266k
62
$238k
9
$312k
17
$268k
15
$300k
6
$320k
36
$274k
12
$286k
5
$317k
10
$228k
13
$369k
5
$370k
35
613
Palantir Technologies logo
Palantir Technologies
DEFENSE
$121k
40
$125k
16
$168k
102
$118k
7
$156k
8
$105k
5
$118k
17
$105k
3
$168k
22
$140k
12
232
Relativity Space logo
Relativity Space
SPACE
$136k
7
$133k
10
$192k
18
$159k
44
$165k
3
$165k
94
$143k
41
$190k
8
$153k
12
$185k
31
$192k
3
278
Rocket Lab logo
Rocket Lab
SPACE
$168k
21
$165k
38
$135k
43
$96k
4
$138k
44
$128k
21
$150k
19
$105k
13
$135k
14
223
Scale AI logo
Scale AI
AI
$209k
28
$210k
10
$243k
44
$244k
16
$190k
18
$151k
3
$188k
5
$117k
4
$253k
8
$241k
4
$243k
12
152
Shield AI logo
Shield AI
DEFENSE
$155k
37
$158k
18
$200k
71
$185k
67
$125k
13
$150k
5
$204k
4
$165k
56
$140k
15
$178k
6
$200k
3
$155k
13
$129k
20
$123k
11
$171k
19
358
Sierra AI logo
Sierra AI
SPACE
$276k
42
$205k
11
$296k
74
$345k
3
$218k
27
$192k
6
$250k
5
$205k
4
173
Sierra Space logo
Sierra Space
SPACE
$153k
47
$141k
9
$150k
25
$171k
37
$102k
4
$161k
5
$125k
20
$72k
13
$113k
24
$175k
8
$109k
30
$138k
13
240
SpaceX logo
SpaceX
SPACE
$110k
80
$125k
67
$143k
271
$138k
112
$168k
54
$107k
14
$160k
22
$109k
120
$57k
95
$111k
34
$105k
84
$124k
76
$118k
73
$138k
43
1146
Talkiatry logo
Talkiatry
FRONTIER
$198k
122
$160k
8
$173k
3
$93k
11
$198k
3
151
The Aerospace Corporation logo
The Aerospace Corporation
SPACE
$162k
44
$149k
9
$161k
25
$178k
141
$179k
6
$155k
4
$172k
20
$66k
3
$166k
21
$161k
5
$174k
21
$119k
5
$172k
4
$134k
6
315
True Anomaly logo
True Anomaly
DEFENSE
$145k
9
$193k
5
$194k
22
$173k
25
$210k
5
$139k
30
$210k
4
$140k
11
$108k
7
$174k
20
145
Vantor logo
Vantor
FRONTIER
$111k
16
$113k
8
$150k
72
$136k
42
$126k
5
$96k
3
$164k
5
160
Vast logo
Vast
SPACE
$125k
13
$155k
8
$213k
5
$154k
21
$123k
4
$131k
3
$172k
34
$104k
3
$145k
14
$128k
9
$154k
28
146
Waymo logo
Waymo
FRONTIER
$212k
55
$182k
15
$238k
145
$222k
32
$198k
12
$200k
6
$224k
13
$238k
12
$300k
8
$122k
5
$239k
3
$186k
10
$224k
14
$254k
12
344
Zipline logo
Zipline
ROBOTICS
$155k
15
$134k
6
$198k
29
$164k
16
$146k
7
$160k
4
$165k
5
$178k
21
$84k
15
$145k
9
$190k
14
$156k
7
$170k
5
154

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