Compensation data for frontier tech
Real salaries from H1B filings, public bands, and community submissions across space, AI, robotics, and defense.
19,227 paid roles
1,576 hiring companies
16 positions tracked
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Software
Median compensation across the 5 frontier tech industries
AI
$212k
1,902 jobs · 585 companies
VC
$215k
9 jobs · 5 companies
ROBOTICS
$191k
114 jobs · 28 companies
DEFENSE
$193k
671 jobs · 29 companies
FRONTIER
$195k
907 jobs · 189 companies
SPACE
$162k
791 jobs · 77 companies
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