Pandas salary: $214K median
From 72 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$214Kmedian advertised salary
$185K – $256Kmiddle half of roles
$222Kaverage advertised salary
72roles counted
Pandas salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $230K, 16% more than senior roles ($198K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $198K | $175K–$225K | 22 |
| Lead and above | $230K | $210K–$280K | 15 |
| No level in title | $214K | $160K–$267K | 35 |
Pandas salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $230K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸California | $225K | 33 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $214K | 66 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 3 |
| Garner Health | $321K | 5 |
| Snorkel AI | $280K | 3 |
| Databricks | $214K | 9 |
| Freenome | $195K | 4 |
| May Mobility | $170K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Pandas roles
All Pandas jobs- Performance Engineer, Inference SystemsAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$350K - $850KPythonSQLLLM
- Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPCOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $490KGoPythonSQL
- Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power ManagementOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$295K - $445KPythonSQLPandas
- Infrastructure Capacity Planner, Demand PlanningAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$320K - $405KPythonSQLPandas
- Manager, Product Applied ScienceGarner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$300K - $390KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Applied ScientistGarner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$300K - $390KLeadPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Research ScientistSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); U…$200K - $375KRemotePythonGCPMachine Learning
- Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI SolutionsSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); U…$200K - $360KRemoteLeadPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Machine Learning EngineerRamp · 🇺🇸New York, NY (HQ)$200K - $330KPythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead - Perception PlatformsMotional · 🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Las Vegas, Nevada…$240K - $330KRemoteLeadPythonC++Machine Learning
- Data Scientist - Behavior EvaluationZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$227K - $307KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Sr. Solutions Architect - AI Natives BusinessDatabricks · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$219K - $301KSeniorPythonSQLGCP
- Data Scientist Engineer, Digital ExperiencePure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$244K - $298KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Tech Lead, Performance EvaluationMay Mobility · 🇺🇸USA - Remote$201K - $295KRemoteLeadPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Data Scientist - Ads MarketplaceNextdoor · 🇺🇸US Remote$190K - $283KRemoteLeadPythonSQLPandas
- Quantitative Analytics Manager, Affirm Bank Machine Learning & Model GovernanceAffirm · 🇺🇸Remote US$220K - $280KRemotePythonSQLMachine Learning
- Senior Validation & SI Correlation EngineerSambaNova · 🇺🇸San Jose, California, United States$210K - $280KSeniorPythonPerlPandas
- Senior Software Engineer - Autonomy Safety MetricZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$239K - $280KSeniorPythonSparkAirflow
- Senior Data Scientist, AI Product InsightsMixpanel · 🇺🇸San Francisco, US (Hybrid)$236K - $277KSeniorPythonSQLLLM
- Senior Software Engineer - ML InfrastructureLatitude AI · 🇺🇸Pittsburgh, PA, Palo Alto, CA, Detroit, MI$184K - $276KSeniorPythonSQLMachine Learning
Questions about Pandas pay
- What is the average Pandas salary?
- $222K a year on average and $214K at the median, across 72 open Pandas postings at tech 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 $185K to $256K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Pandas pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), Garner Health ($321K), Snorkel AI ($280K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- 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 Pandas roles at tech companies is $214K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $185K to $256K. Counted from 72 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/pandas/
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