The AI Pay Scale: A Look At The Sky-High Salaries Helping Fuel Nvidia's Success

Zinger Key Points
  • Nvidia base salaries range from $74,460 to $786,000.
  • AI jobs are in high demand and Nvidia's GPUs power LLMs like ChatGPT.

So far, 2023 has been NVIDIA Corp's NVDA year as explosive AI-fueled growth has sparked a remarkable surge in shares. The stock crossed the $1 trillion market cap mark this year and doesn't seem to be slowing down. Neither are the salaries the AI giant is willing to pay its employees

What To Know: Nvidia has built an incredible lead in the AI chip space by hiring some of the best talent. 

According to data from Levels.fyi, Nvidia pays salaries ranging from $74,460 to $786,000. For comparison, fellow AI leader Microsoft Corp MSFT made salary offers ranging from $77,000 to $310,000 last year and iPhone maker Apple Inc AAPL offered prospective workers base salaries of $102,000 to $322,000. 

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AI jobs are in high demand. Workers tasked with training large language models (LLMs) to communicate in a useful way are being called "prompt engineers" and companies are offering to pay the individuals up to $335,000 per year. 

Nvidia's H100 GPUs power LLMs like ChatGPT. If you work for the chip giant, you are likely getting paid pretty well. Here's a look at salary ranges for some of the highest-paying positions at Nvidia. 

  • Data Scientist: $176,000 - $332,000
  • Solutions Architect: $228,000 - $375,000
  • Technical Program Manager: $258,000 - $449,000
  • Product Manager: $197,000 - $471,000
  • Software Engineer: $167,000 - $545,000
  • Hardware Engineer: $146,000 - $600,000
  • Software Engineering Manager: $285,000 - $786,000

You don't have to be a manager or engineer at Nvidia to make the big bucks. Marketing positions pay an average of $187,000, product designers make $295,000 on average and sales positions have a median pay of $280,000. Recruiters for the company are making around $141,000 a year and technical writers and consultants are averaging $255,000. 

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Photo: courtesy of Nvidia.

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