PRDs salary: $188K median
The median advertised PRDs salary is $188K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $150K to $226K: counted from 564 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $91 an hour or $15,688 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $268K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll PRDs jobs
$188Kmedian advertised salary
$150K – $226Kmiddle half of roles
$195Kaverage advertised salary
564roles counted
PRDs salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $226K, 24% more than senior roles ($181K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $181K | $156K–$200K | 180 |
| Lead and above | $226K | $203K–$262K | 171 |
| No level in the title | $160K | $132K–$200K | 211 |
PRDs salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $219K | 160 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $214K | 33 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $209K | 62 |
| 🇺🇸California | $200K | 257 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $189K | 527 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $187K | 33 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $180K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸Denver, CO | $176K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $170K | 21 |
Skills that pay more for PRDs roles
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 11 |
| Lambda | $360K | 8 |
| Wayve | $294K | 3 |
| $266K | 3 | |
| ClickHouse | $260K | 4 |
| OpenAI | $256K | 23 |
| Skydio | $242K | 3 |
| Zoox | $240K | 4 |
| Twenty | $233K | 4 |
| ClickUp | $225K | 3 |
| Perplexity | $225K | 3 |
| Nuro | $223K | 6 |
| Databricks | $216K | 14 |
| Shield AI | $210K | 11 |
| Fivetran | $207K | 13 |
| SharkNinja | $204K | 4 |
| Decagon | $202K | 3 |
| Muon Space | $202K | 6 |
| Waymo | $198K | 4 |
| Valar Atomics | $197K | 4 |
| Agility Robotics | $196K | 3 |
| 1X | $195K | 3 |
| Samsung Research America | $194K | 3 |
| Metropolis | $192K | 3 |
| Oura | $188K | 7 |
Highest-paying open PRDs roles
All PRDs jobs- Lead - Security Controls Assurance - SOXAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY | Was…$410K - $510KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Principal Product Manager - Nvidia Technology PartnershipsLambda · Bellevue Office$338K - $500KHybridLead and aboveMachine LearningPRDs
- Principal Product Manager - ConsoleLambda · Bellevue Office$338K - $500KHybridLead and aboveMachine LearningKubernetesInfrastructure as code
- Product ManagerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $500KUser researchPRDs
- Quantitative, Head of Dataset & QualityBuild Ai · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $500KLead and above.NETHTMLLLM evaluation
- Electrical Engineer, PCBA Test Infrastructure, RoboticsOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$318K - $485KPythonPRDsFirmware
- Systems Software Engineer, BMC & Management PlaneOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KHybridRustC++Linux
- Product DesignerRamp · 🇺🇸New York, NY (HQ)$188K - $440KHybridLLMFigmaDesign systems
- Design Verification Emulation, HardwareRiver AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Austin, TX, Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KPythonC++CI/CD
- Head of PharmacovigilancePraxis Precision Medicines · 🇺🇸United States - Remote$378K - $420KRemoteLead and abovePRDsSuccessFactorsRegulatory compliance
- Director, Product Management (Discovery, Search, Personalization)Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations$255K - $412KLead and aboveUnreal EngineRecommender systemsPRDs
- Capacity Deployment Lead - Data Center OperationsAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly, United States$320K - $405KRemoteLead and aboveData centersPRDsHigh-performance computing
- Sr. Staff Product Manager, Ads Quality RankingPinterest · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US$230K - $403KLead and abovePRDsMarketing attribution
- Staff Product ManagerTwenty · 🇺🇸New York, NY$184K - $389KLead and aboveSecurity clearanceUser researchPRDs
- Staff Product Manager - AI EvalsTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$161K - $389KLead and aboveAISecurity clearanceAI agents
- Principal Product Manager, AI InfrastructureOKX · 🇺🇸San Jose, California, United States$250K - $376KLead and aboveLLMAINLP
- Principal Validation Tech Lead / Manager, L4 Driverless AutonomyWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$295K - $375KHybridLead and abovePythonSQLComputer Vision
- Staff Product Manager, Applied AIApptronik · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California$275K - $350KLead and aboveAIReinforcement learningFine-tuning
- Principal Product Manager, HTS API MarketplaceHopper · 🇺🇸US - Remote$250K - $350KRemoteLead and aboveSQLMachine LearningLLM
- Research Engineering Manager, STEMTuring · 🇺🇸United States$260K - $350KPythonPostgreSQLDocker
Questions about PRDs pay
- What is the average PRDs salary?
- $195K a year on average and $188K at the median, across 564 open PRDs 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 $150K to $226K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest PRDs pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), Lambda ($360K), Wayve ($294K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a prds a high-paying job?
- The median PRDs posting advertises $188K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 8% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a prds?
- A tenth of the postings offer $268K a year or more; the highest open PRDs role advertises up to $510K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the PRDs salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $188K a year is about $91 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,688 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $72 to $108 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for PRDs roles?
- Postings that ask for LLM (+$27K, 61 postings), Python (+$2K, 142 postings) advertise more than the $188K median of all PRDs 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 PRDs roles at companies is $188K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $150K to $226K. Counted from 564 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/prds/
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