US companies across all industries are investing $1.35 billion in talent with artificial intelligence expertise, according a survey released by Paysa, a big data platform aimed at providing market insight into salaries. The average salary for an AI engineer at Uber, the top-paying company, is $314,746.
Paysa listed the 20 highest-paying companies by average salary for an AI engineer:
- Uber: $314,746
- WalmartLabs: $265,698
- Netflix: $264,799
- Facebook: $257,846
- Salesforce: $248,281
- Google: $236,388
- Coupang: $234,348
- Twitter: $230,639
- Splunk: $227,202
- Apple: $227,094
- Intuit: $221,438
- Palo Alto Networks: $219,679
- PayPal: $218,262
- OpenTable: $215,399
- VMware: $211,862
- Amazon: $209,762
- Unity Technologies: $208,729
- Adobe: $207,076
- eBay: $203,626
- Veritas Technologies: $202,776
And it listed the top metropolitan areas for AI jobs and the average salary employees receive if they have a job in AI:
- San Francisco, $182,418
- Seattle, $191,213
- New York, $122,075
- Boston, $151,806
- Chicago, $102,768
- San Diego, $122,623
- Austin, Texas, $124,023
- Atlanta, $111,323
- Washington, $106,288
- Charlotte, NC, $111,879