Median salary
$197,500
per year · annualized USD
Typical range
$166.7k – $234.4k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
35.5%
33 of 93 roles
Live roles
93
open right now
Salary trend
median · annualized USDSalary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying jobs
Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Training - San Francisco
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Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization
Machine Learning Engineer, Inference & Serving (Speech LLM) - San Francisco
Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Evals & Observability
Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Evals & Observability
Principal LLM Inference Engineer
Staff Attack Engineer, AI/LLM
Top companies hiring
Otter.ai
Zscaler
Five9
LVT
Prompt Engineer salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $247,500 | 8 |
| New York | $197,500 | 3 |
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How much do Prompt Engineer roles pay?
The median salary for Prompt Engineer roles is $197,500 per year. Most pay falls between $166,650 (25th percentile) and $234,350 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $133,050 to $250,000.
These figures are computed live from 93 active Prompt Engineer roles on JobsRadar, of which 33 (35.5%) publish a salary range. Pay is normalized to annualized USD so roles can be compared on equal terms; the highest-paying roles listed above show their original posted currency. Numbers refresh every few hours as new roles are posted and older ones close.
Employers currently hiring well-paid Prompt Engineer roles include Plaud, Airbnb, Glean and d-Matrix.
Salary transparency varies by employer and region, so the disclosing share above reflects only roles that publish pay — not every open position. Use it as a directional benchmark rather than an exact offer.