Compensation data for frontier tech
Real salaries from H1B filings, public bands, and community submissions across space, AI, robotics, and defense.
21,750 paid roles
1,677 hiring companies
16 positions tracked
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Software
Median compensation across the 5 frontier tech industries
AI
$213k
2,109 jobs · 627 companies
VC
$208k
7 jobs · 5 companies
ROBOTICS
$193k
122 jobs · 40 companies
DEFENSE
$193k
788 jobs · 31 companies
FRONTIER
$193k
982 jobs · 211 companies
SPACE
$174k
875 jobs · 76 companies
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