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RAG salary: $225K median

From 304 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

$225Kmedian advertised salary
$193K – $260Kmiddle half of roles
$225Kaverage advertised salary
304roles counted

RAG salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $246K, 20% more than senior roles ($205K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$205K$192K–$250K89
Lead and above$246K$222K–$275K93
No level in title$220K$174K–$245K117

RAG salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$243K125
🇺🇸California$238K137
🇺🇸New York$238K38
🇺🇸United States$225K272

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
OpenAI$338K3
Airbnb$274K5
Reddit$270K5
Cloudflare$262K17
Snorkel AI$262K3
Illumio$256K3
Cribl$255K3
Socure$250K5
Sierra$245K22
True Anomaly$230K3
Scale AI$228K14
LangChain$228K8
Cresta$228K10
Turing$225K3
Figma$224K3
Elastic$220K7
Databricks$216K16
Otter.ai$208K3
Drata$205K5
Crusoe$200K3
Zilliz$198K6
Pinecone$190K3
Oura$188K3
Starburst$185K4
Fivetran$165K3

Highest-paying open RAG roles

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Questions about RAG pay

What is the average RAG salary?
$225K a year on average and $225K at the median, across 304 open RAG 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 $193K to $260K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest RAG pay?
OpenAI ($338K), Airbnb ($274K), Reddit ($270K), 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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