What is the average Data quality salary?

$193K a year on average and $182K at the median, across 1,049 open Data quality postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.

What is the typical range?

The middle half of the postings offer $148K to $226K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.

Which companies advertise the highest Data quality pay?

Mercor ($335K), Anthropic ($332K), Wayve ($300K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).

Is a data quality a high-paying job?

The median Data quality posting advertises $182K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 5% above the middle of the market.

How much can you earn as a data quality?

A tenth of the postings offer $276K a year or more; the highest open Data quality role advertises up to $850K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.

What is the Data quality salary per hour and per month?

The median of $182K a year is about $88 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,208 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $71 to $108 an hour.

Which skills pay more for Data quality roles?

Postings that ask for Machine Learning (+$40K, 188 postings), LLM (+$22K, 190 postings), Airflow (+$20K, 118 postings) advertise more than the $182K median of all Data quality postings with pay.

What does an entry-level data quality make?

6 junior and intern Data quality postings state pay, with a median of $99K a year ($47 an hour).

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.

Data quality Salary: $193K Average, $182K Median (Nov 2026)

Data quality salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $225K, 25% more than senior roles ($180K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

Level	Median salary	Middle half	Roles
Senior	$180K	$155K–$202K	323
Lead and above	$225K	$186K–$265K	274
No level in the title	$165K	$130K–$210K	446

Data quality salary by location

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area	$219K	306
🇺🇸California	$205K	395
🇺🇸Seattle, WA	$195K	45
🇺🇸New York, NY	$185K	213
🇺🇸United States	$184K	959
🇺🇸Boston, MA	$181K	37
🇺🇸Washington, DC	$179K	26
🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA	$170K	25
🇺🇸Denver, CO	$156K	33
🇺🇸Chicago, IL	$150K	28
🇺🇸Texas	$141K	16

Skills that pay more for Data quality roles

Skill	Median with it	Above the median	Postings
Machine Learning	$223K	+$40K	188
LLM	$205K	+$22K	190
Airflow	$202K	+$20K	118
AI agents	$200K	+$18K	118
GCP	$198K	+$16K	108

Top-paying companies

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
Mercor	$335K	8
Anthropic	$332K	11
Wayve	$300K	8
Turing	$300K	11
OpenAI	$298K	28
Twenty	$286K	6
Waymo	$280K	7
Pinterest	$271K	9
Roblox	$269K	5
Harvey	$268K	6
Figma	$264K	7
Perplexity	$252K	4
OKX	$250K	3
Cursor	$247K	4
Zoox	$246K	4
Applied	$244K	6
Databricks	$243K	14
Attentive	$242K	4
Monte Carlo	$242K	6
Reddit	$241K	10
Faire	$233K	5
Apollo.io	$232K	4
Block	$232K	8
Ironclad	$232K	3
Elastic	$232K	4

Highest-paying open Data quality roles

All Data quality jobs

Pre-training Data Infrastructure EngineerAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$500K - $850KRustPythonMachine Learning12mo
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data PlatformAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$500K - $850KLead and abovePythonTypeScriptReact2mo
Tech Lead, Applied AI - SearchMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$350K - $600KLead and aboveLLMAIAI agents3mo
Senior Director of Engineering, Generative AIRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$526K - $574KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI2mo
Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads QualityPinterest · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US$315K - $551KLead and aboveMachine LearningAIReinforcement learning5w
Member of Technical Staff, RL Research & EnvironmentsMagic.dev · 🇺🇸San Francisco$275K - $550KData quality24mo
Data Engineering Manager, Growth & RevenueOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$459K - $536KPythonSQLScala2mo
Product Manager, Financial ServicesOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$401K - $530KOpenAI APIData qualityM&A5w
Senior Director of Engineering, Native DataApollo.io · 🇺🇸Hybrid, San Francisco$349K - $502KHybridLead and aboveHubSpotData qualityETL7w
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-TrainingMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $500KSQLMachine LearningLLM7mo
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Curation & Dataset StrategyWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$390K - $460KHybridLead and abovePythonMachine LearningAI3w
Forward Deployed Data Engineer – TS/SCI (Full Scope Poly)Twenty · 🇺🇸Chantilly, VA$192K - $455KGoPythonTypeScript6w
Staff Data EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸New York, NY$192K - $455KLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript6w
Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & EvalsHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $450KHybridPythonLLMAI agents13d
Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & EvalsHarvey · 🇺🇸New York$230K - $450KHybridPythonLLMAI agents13d
RVP, Enterprise Sales LeaderIronclad · 🇺🇸Remote - US$370K - $450KRemoteData qualityPipeline managementSolution selling4w
Research ScientistRoboflow · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $450KMachine LearningComputer VisionData quality7w
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Data Product PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$209K - $429KRemoteLead and aboveAirflowData qualityData warehousing7mo
Radar LeadWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$315K - $408KHybridLead and abovePythonAngularBash6w
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonTypeScript5mo

Questions about Data quality pay

What is the average Data quality salary?: $193K a year on average and $182K at the median, across 1,049 open Data quality postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
What is the typical range?: The middle half of the postings offer $148K to $226K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest Data quality pay?: Mercor ($335K), Anthropic ($332K), Wayve ($300K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a data quality a high-paying job?: The median Data quality posting advertises $182K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 5% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a data quality?: A tenth of the postings offer $276K a year or more; the highest open Data quality role advertises up to $850K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the Data quality salary per hour and per month?: The median of $182K a year is about $88 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,208 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $71 to $108 an hour.
Which skills pay more for Data quality roles?: Postings that ask for Machine Learning (+$40K, 188 postings), LLM (+$22K, 190 postings), Airflow (+$20K, 118 postings) advertise more than the $182K median of all Data quality postings with pay.
What does an entry-level data quality make?: 6 junior and intern Data quality postings state pay, with a median of $99K a year ($47 an hour).
Where do these figures come from?: From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.

Data quality salary: $182K median