{ "name": "aiimplementationcost.com AI Talent Pay Benchmark", "title": "AI Talent Pay Benchmark", "url": "https://aiimplementationcost.com/datasets/ai-talent-pay-benchmark/", "csv": "https://aiimplementationcost.com/datasets/ai-talent-pay-benchmark.csv", "markdown": "https://aiimplementationcost.com/datasets/ai-talent-pay-benchmark/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-18", "license": "https://aiimplementationcost.com/terms", "headline": "The AI Talent Pay Benchmark carries 2 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 120,230 to 140,300 USD, read 12 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The AI Talent Pay Benchmark carries 2 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 120,230 to 140,300 USD, read 12 October 2026.", "2 of the 6 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 12 October 2026.", "AI Talent Pay Benchmark, occupation computer and information research scientists: median 140,300 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.", "AI Talent Pay Benchmark, occupation data scientists: median 120,230 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026." ], "citation": "\"aiimplementationcost.com AI Talent Pay Benchmark\", updated 2026-10-18, https://aiimplementationcost.com/datasets/ai-talent-pay-benchmark/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "USD", "n": 2, "median": 130265, "min": 120230, "max": 140300, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 130265, "units": { "USD": 2 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 6, "read_sources": 6, "not_published": 4, "published_share": 0.333 }, "by_axis": { "occupation": { "computer and information research scientists": { "USD": { "n": 1, "median": 140300, "min": 140300, "max": 140300, "p25": 140300, "p75": 140300, "mean": 140300 } }, "data scientists": { "USD": { "n": 1, "median": 120230, "min": 120230, "max": 120230, "p25": 120230, "p75": 120230, "mean": 120230 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "Computer and Information Research Scientists : Occupational Outlook Handboo", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/computer-and-information-research-scientists.htm", "figure": "$140,300 ", "value": 140300, "unit": "USD", "vat": null, "axis": { "occupation": "computer and information research scientists" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "quote": "2025 Median Pay $140,300 per year", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "61298d6d18f6292330f5c966e4d46e0cdf758fd174e2c45c46dcb2a12a09cead" }, { "source": "Data Scientists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/data-scientists.htm", "figure": "$120,230 ", "value": 120230, "unit": "USD", "vat": null, "axis": { "occupation": "data scientists" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "quote": "2025 Median Pay $120,230 per year", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "5690fd5d6257821aec3d5532e81f1fa5a51e4980f1663b83e5d47d1dbf8a0eca" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Tables : U.S. Bureau of", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes152051.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Tables : U.S. Bureau of", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151221.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Table 1. National employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.t01.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Employee earnings in the UK - Office for National Statistics", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/latest", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/computer-and-information-research-scientists.htm", "label": "Computer and Information Research Scientists : Occupational Outlook Handboo", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/data-scientists.htm", "label": "Data Scientists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes152051.htm", "label": "Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Tables : U.S. Bureau of", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151221.htm", "label": "Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Tables : U.S. Bureau of", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.t01.htm", "label": "Table 1. National employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/latest", "label": "Employee earnings in the UK - Office for National Statistics", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 6 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 4 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 27 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the statistical agency's median and percentile wage for each AI-adjacent occupation, loaded to a fully-burdened annual employer cost, and multiplied by the team shape each project type in the index implies, giving a BUILD-IT-YOURSELF cost that can be set beside the agency's published price for the same scope - the comparison the buyer is actually making and which neither the agency nor the agency's competitor publishes", "embed": "

120,230 to 140,300 USD

2 published figures, AI Talent Pay Benchmark, across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026

Source: aiimplementationcost.com AI Talent Pay Benchmark
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