Mark Zuckerberg's Meta software engineers can earn up to $480,000 a year, with a machine learning position of $440,000. Even the company's product designers and researchers earn more than $200,000.
As Business Insider reports, citing data from federal documents, these numbers only reflect annual sals except stock options, bonuses and other benefits that allow you to double or triple the entire compensation package.
While tech companies are usually trembling closely about compensation, U.S. government mandatory disclosures have given us a glimpse into the actual wage measures of Meta. The figures come from documents businesses must submit to the U.S. Department of Labor when hiring foreign workers under the H-1B visa program, so 85,000 specialist workers can be brought in each year through the lottery system.
This data comes amidst a fierce competition among AI talents in Silicon Valley. Meta is reportedly offering up to $300 million AI researcher compensation packages over four years as it is building a new Superintelligence Lab.
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Meta pay by key roles annually (data – quarter 2025):
artificial intelligence
▪ Pid Researcher – $179,481 to $232,000
▪Pid Product Marketing Manager – $220,000
▪ Learning Engineer – $165,000 to $440,000
▪Research Infrastructure Engineer – $239,723
▪Research Researcher – $232,000
▪reasearch Engineer – from $154,840 to $400,000
▪ Lovely Machine Learning Engineer – $232,017 to $232,266
data
▪Data Analyst – $168,000 to $204,000
▪DataAnalytics Manager – $223,202
▪Data Engineer – $125,068 to $270,000
▪DataEngineering Manager – $224,028 to $275,282
▪DataScience Manager – $248,920 to $301,619
▪Database Engineer – $181,000 to $240,002
▪ Director of Data Science – $320,000
▪Data Processing Specialist – $122,760 to $270,000
▪ Lovely Data Engineer – From $189,066 to $209,720
▪§SeniorData Processing Specialist – $204,541 to $227,559
▪ Lovely Manager, Data, Analytics – $280,000
engineering
▪‑ Asic Engineer – $165,568 to $299,880
▪BusinessEngineer – $137,000 to $228,538
▪Advanced Engineers – from $185,000 to $256,270
▪Electrical Engineer – $164,000 to $255,000
▪In-Bed Software Engineer – $169,313 to $262,822
▪Employment Director – From $352,310 to $353,042
▪Subject Manager – $246,536 to $288,767
▪From $177,747 to $233,495
▪Hardware Engineer Here – $176,000 to $240,000
▪NetworkEngineer – $115,000 to $239,237
▪Control Engineer – from $189,213 to $244,000
▪ Security Engineer for Counts – $145,000 to $258,524
▪Pure Software Engineer – From $194,467 to $302,134
▪§Software Engineer – $120,000 to $480,000
▪§SoftwareDevelopment Manager – $219,978 to $328,000
Product and Program Management
▪Privacy Program Manager – $181,139 to $234,461
▪§ProductDesigner – $159,000 to $283,693
▪§ProductDesign Director – $321,538
▪‑Product Design Manager – $267,540 to $279,594
▪§Product Growth Analyst – $142,000 to $206,000
▪Director of Product Management – $356,512
▪§ProductManager – $161,606 to $314,159
▪Pure Product Designer – $199,932
▪Nurse Product Manager – $224,323
▪Receipt Program Manager – $164,131 to $274,596
the study
▪Applicable Researcher – $214,032 to $232,000
▪ Pidware Researcher – $214,311
▪Lecture Researcher – $249,369
▪reasearch Fellow – $167,000 to $321,101
▪Palace Research Manager – $258,524
▪Nurs Researcher – $214,032
▪‑ X Researcher – $170,000 to $350,000
▪‑X Research Manager – $302,134
▪‑X Researcher – $195,000 to $292,160
As a reminder, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Corporation has launched a massive recruitment for top AI researchers, offering up to $300 million in compensation packages over four years, with over $100 million paid in the first year that includes stocks. Media reports show that at least 10 offers were received by Openai employees, but not all of them accepted them.
Mark Zuckerberg personally reaches out to candidates and promises unlimited access to computing resources, including GPUs, which are important for AI research. Some people at Openai are hesitant and believe they have little impact on meta.
Openai responded sharply. Chief Science Officer Mark Chen compared Meta's actions to “stealing from the house,” and CEO Sam Altman called it “bad taste” in an internal memo, emphasizing that “missioners will beat the mercenary.” Openai is considering compensation to keep you talented. “I've been less confident in my research strategy than I am now. We have an unprecedented bet on the power of computing, so I believe we will use it for our best capabilities,” writes Altman.
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