Technician Compensation Across Frontier Tech

Median total compensation by company, ranked. Sourced from disclosed salary bands on active job postings + verified community submissions across space, AI, robotics, and defense.

Company	Median TC	Median Base	Locations	Reports
Anthropic AI	$335K	$290K	3	9
Plaid FRONTIER	$292K	$276K	1	4
Qualitate SPACE	$285K	$250K	1	1
Waymo FRONTIER	$281K	$251K	3	9
Glean AI	$275K	$250K	2	4
Collectly FRONTIER	$275K	$250K	0	1
OpenAI AI	$266K	$238K	1	6
Profound AI	$253K	$230K	1	1
ClearML AI	$233K	$215K	1	1
SentiLink FRONTIER	$225K	$200K	0	1
Craniometrix FRONTIER	$215K	$180K	1	1
Databricks AI	$214K	$180K	1	3
Whatnot FRONTIER	$213K	$195K	1	1
Formation Bio FRONTIER	$205K	$178K	1	1
Aurelian AI	$200K	$160K	1	1
Idler AI	$195K	$140K	1	1
Atoms FRONTIER	$193K	$170K	2	3
The Aerospace Corporation SPACE	$189K	$151K	3	3
Sorting Robotics ROBOTICS	$180K	$170K	1	1
Raycaster AI	$177K	$83K	1	1
Archer Aviation SPACE	$171K	$152K	2	5
Cross River AI	$165K	$150K	1	1
CloudCruise AI	$163K	$125K	1	1
Komodo Health AI	$160K	$140K	0	1
Central Intelligence Agency DEFENSE	$159K	$137K	1	1
ispace SPACE	$158K	$126K	0	1
Relativity Space SPACE	$157K	$125K	0	2
Sesame AI	$150K	$120K	1	1
HOKALI AI	$140K	$100K	0	1
Stratolaunch SPACE	$134K	$113K	1	2
Maritime Fusion FRONTIER	$130K	$100K	1	1
Wisk Aero SPACE	$120K	$107K	1	2
Skydio DEFENSE	$120K	$100K	2	5
Replit AI	$120K	$104K	2	2
Periodic Labs AI	$118K	$100K	1	2
Bicara Therapeutics FRONTIER	$117K	$105K	1	1
Reviving Mind FRONTIER	$115K	$100K	1	1
Shield AI DEFENSE	$114K	$73K	1	19
Inversion Space SPACE	$112K	$97K	1	2
Nowadays AI	$110K	$90K	1	1
Turion Space SPACE	$103K	$83K	1	2
Thales Alenia Space SPACE	$100K	$90K	5	6
xAI AI	$100K	$90K	1	1
Pave Robotics ROBOTICS	$100K	$80K	1	1
Anduril Industries DEFENSE	$100K	$86K	11	83
PsiQuantum FRONTIER	$99K	$83K	2	2
Saildrone DEFENSE	$98K	$83K	1	2
Prenuvo FRONTIER	$98K	$85K	1	1
Contrario AI	$95K	$80K	1	1
Figure AI ROBOTICS	$94K	$73K	3	15
Apptronik ROBOTICS	$94K	$83K	1	1
Heron Power FRONTIER	$94K	$73K	1	2
Scale AI AI	$93K	$74K	1	3
Surface Labs AI	$93K	$65K	1	1
Abacus AI AI	$93K	$85K	3	3
Helion Energy FRONTIER	$92K	$77K	1	2
Weave Robotics ROBOTICS	$90K	$80K	1	1
Icarus Industries SPACE	$88K	$62K	1	1
Mariana Minerals FRONTIER	$88K	$78K	2	4
Honor AI	$88K	$80K	1	1
Amber Bio FRONTIER	$86K	$69K	2	7
JPL SPACE	$85K	$80K	1	2
Commonwealth Fusion Systems FRONTIER	$84K	$64K	2	6
Chariot Defense DEFENSE	$84K	$55K	1	2
Coba FRONTIER	$84K	$67K	0	2
Hermeus DEFENSE	$83K	$62K	3	7
Aurora Innovation AI	$82K	$73K	0	4
ABL Space Systems SPACE	$82K	$67K	0	2
Gravitics SPACE	$82K	$73K	1	1
Magic Leap AI	$82K	$75K	1	1
Xona Space Systems SPACE	$82K	$66K	1	2
Boeing SPACE	$80K	$61K	2	11
Apex Space AI	$79K	$68K	1	4
Moon Express DEFENSE	$78K	$62K	1	1
Pylon AI	$78K	$52K	1	1
Astranis SPACE	$77K	$68K	1	2
Radiant FRONTIER	$77K	$69K	1	3
True Anomaly DEFENSE	$76K	$67K	2	2
Voyager Space DEFENSE	$76K	$67K	4	9
IonQ FRONTIER	$76K	$68K	2	4
Blue Origin SPACE	$75K	$62K	6	31
Loft Orbital SPACE	$74K	$62K	1	2
Muon Space SPACE	$74K	$64K	1	1
Arc Boat Company FRONTIER	$74K	$74K	1	2
Freenome FRONTIER	$73K	$64K	0	1
Agility Robotics ROBOTICS	$72K	$63K	2	2
Varda Space SPACE	$72K	$60K	1	4
Northrop Grumman SPACE	$69K	$58K	8	13
Stoke Space SPACE	$67K	$55K	2	5
CesiumAstro SPACE	$67K	$60K	1	2
Terran Orbital SPACE	$66K	$58K	1	1
Boston Dynamics ROBOTICS	$64K	$58K	1	1
Pivotal Future FRONTIER	$64K	$62K	1	1
Plasmidsaurus FRONTIER	$64K	$59K	2	2
Zipline ROBOTICS	$62K	$62K	5	11
Proception Inc ROBOTICS	$62K	$52K	1	1
Loombotic FRONTIER	$62K	$54K	1	3
Senra Systems AI	$62K	$49K	2	4
Sierra Space SPACE	$62K	$52K	6	14
Ursa Major SPACE	$61K	$54K	1	2
Flock Safety DEFENSE	$60K	$55K	3	5
Vast SPACE	$59K	$50K	2	5
Neuralink FRONTIER	$59K	$55K	3	5
World View DEFENSE	$58K	$55K	1	1
SpaceX SPACE	$57K	$48K	8	78
Sprinter Health FRONTIER	$57K	$52K	9	9
Agile Space Industries SPACE	$55K	$44K	1	1
United States Space Force SPACE	$55K	$47K	4	5
Nuro ROBOTICS	$54K	$54K	3	10
Machina Labs ROBOTICS	$53K	$48K	1	3
Verne Robotics ROBOTICS	$52K	$42K	1	1
Podium Automation AI	$52K	$52K	1	1
Ultima Genomics FRONTIER	$48K	$48K	1	1
Serve Robotics ROBOTICS	$47K	$44K	6	11
Phil FRONTIER	$46K	$42K	2	6
Nextera Robotics ROBOTICS	$46K	$33K	1	2
Felix AI	$45K	$44K	2	3
Shuttle Central AI	$44K	$40K	0	1
Journey AI	$43K	$40K	1	1
Rocket Lab SPACE	$39K	$33K	1	1
Near Space Labs SPACE	$38K	$35K	0	1
Axiom Space FRONTIER	$36K	$31K	1	1
Socket.dev FRONTIER	$31K	$25K	0	1
Mindpeak FRONTIER	$26K	$21K	1	1

Company	Median TC	Jobs
Anduril Industries	$67k–$88k	4
Nuro	$54k–$73k	3
SpaceX	$46k–$55k	4

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