Hugging Face salary: $226K median
The median advertised Hugging Face salary is $226K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $200K to $275K: counted from 48 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $109 an hour or $18,812 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $298K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Hugging Face jobs
$226Kmedian advertised salary
$200K – $275Kmiddle half of roles
$234Kaverage advertised salary
48roles counted
Hugging Face salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $264K | 21 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $262K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸California | $259K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $230K | 46 |
Skills that pay more for Hugging Face roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| XGBoost | $321K | +$95K | 5 |
| Terraform | $284K | +$58K | 5 |
| LlamaIndex | $280K | +$54K | 7 |
| ETL | $279K | +$54K | 6 |
| Deep learning | $270K | +$44K | 9 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Garner Health | $321K | 5 |
| Scale AI | $298K | 3 |
| $276K | 3 | |
| Invisible Technologies | $238K | 4 |
| Databricks | $216K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Hugging Face roles
All Hugging Face jobs- Founding Machine Learning EngineerShepherd · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $400KPythonTypeScriptSQL
- Manager, Product Applied ScienceGarner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$300K - $390KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Applied ScientistGarner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$300K - $390KLead and abovePythonSQLMachine Learning
- AI Applied ScientistFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$153K - $376KPythonJavaC++
- Research Scientist - RL TrainingSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); U…$200K - $375KRemotePythonGCPMachine Learning
- Senior Staff Frontier Agents EngineerScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$288K - $360KLead and abovePythonDockerTerraform
- Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI SolutionsSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); U…$200K - $360KRemoteLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Software Engineer, ML PlatformSola · 🇺🇸New York City$150K - $350KPythonTypeScriptPyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff - ResearchKineticsystems · 🇺🇸San Francisco$175K - $350KLLMPyTorchLLM evaluation
- Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, EnterpriseScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$265K - $331KPythonDockerTerraform
- Machine Learning Engineer, Answers RelevanceReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$217K - $322KRemoteGoPythonMachine Learning
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI SecurityReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$230K - $322KRemoteLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer(TLM), Driver Understanding and EvaluationWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA$238K - $302KLead and abovePythonC++Machine Learning
- Staff Technical Lead Manager, Simulation, Machine LearningWaymo · 🇺🇸New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco…$238K - $302KLead and abovePythonC++Machine Learning
- Staff Machine Learning EngineerCresta · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$230K - $300KRemoteLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)Invisible Technologies · 🇺🇸New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid$250K - $300KHybridLead and abovePythonDockerGCP
- Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)Invisible Technologies · 🇺🇸New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid$210K - $300KHybridLead and abovePythonDockerGCP
- Senior Machine Learning EngineerCresta · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$205K - $270KRemoteSeniorMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Engineer 1 - C++/Marian/Java/AWS/PyTorch/PythonCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonJavaScriptJava
- Senior Applied AI EngineerBubble · 🇺🇸NYC, New York$201K - $261KSeniorRustPythonTypeScript
Questions about Hugging Face pay
- What is the average Hugging Face salary?
- $234K a year on average and $226K at the median, across 48 open Hugging Face 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 $200K to $275K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Hugging Face pay?
- Garner Health ($321K), Scale AI ($298K), Reddit ($276K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a hugging face a high-paying job?
- The median Hugging Face posting advertises $226K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 30% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a hugging face?
- A tenth of the postings offer $298K a year or more; the highest open Hugging Face role advertises up to $400K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Hugging Face salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $226K a year is about $109 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $18,812 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $96 to $132 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Hugging Face roles?
- Postings that ask for XGBoost (+$95K, 5 postings), Terraform (+$58K, 5 postings), LlamaIndex (+$54K, 7 postings) advertise more than the $226K median of all Hugging Face 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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The median advertised salary for Hugging Face roles at companies is $226K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $200K to $275K. Counted from 48 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/hugging-face/
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