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Fine-tuning salary: $225K median

The median advertised Fine-tuning salary is $225K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $192K to $270K: counted from 154 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $108 an hour or $18,750 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $310K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$225Kmedian advertised salary
$192K – $270Kmiddle half of roles
$236Kaverage advertised salary
154roles counted

Fine-tuning salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $260K, 33% more than senior roles ($195K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$195K$175K–$202K30
Lead and above$260K$232K–$295K36
No level in the title$225K$193K–$270K88

Fine-tuning salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$255K67
🇺🇸California$240K78
🇺🇸United States$225K148
🇺🇸New York, NY$222K48

Skills that pay more for Fine-tuning roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
Deep learning$277K+$52K21
vLLM$250K+$25K17
Reinforcement learning$249K+$24K44
PyTorch$248K+$22K45
Distributed training$248K+$22K19

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
OpenAI$454K4
River AI Inc.$310K4
Deepgram$277K3
Airbnb$274K5
Scale AI$256K6
Baseten$248K5
Modal$220K36
Sandboxaq$193K4
Anduril Industries$150K8

Highest-paying open Fine-tuning roles

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Questions about Fine-tuning pay

What is the average Fine-tuning salary?
$236K a year on average and $225K at the median, across 154 open Fine-tuning 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 $192K to $270K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest Fine-tuning pay?
OpenAI ($454K), River AI Inc. ($310K), Deepgram ($277K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a fine-tuning a high-paying job?
The median Fine-tuning posting advertises $225K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 29% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a fine-tuning?
A tenth of the postings offer $310K a year or more; the highest open Fine-tuning role advertises up to $850K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the Fine-tuning salary per hour and per month?
The median of $225K a year is about $108 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $18,750 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $93 to $130 an hour.
Which skills pay more for Fine-tuning roles?
Postings that ask for Deep learning (+$52K, 21 postings), vLLM (+$25K, 17 postings), Reinforcement learning (+$24K, 44 postings) advertise more than the $225K median of all Fine-tuning postings with pay.
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.

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