Time series salary: $198K median
The median advertised Time series salary is $198K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $225K: counted from 211 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $95 an hour or $16,458 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $260K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Time series jobs
$198Kmedian advertised salary
$165K – $225Kmiddle half of roles
$201Kaverage advertised salary
211roles counted
Time series salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $230K, 14% more than senior roles ($202K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $202K | $180K–$221K | 87 |
| Lead and above | $230K | $214K–$238K | 36 |
| No level in the title | $172K | $146K–$215K | 88 |
Time series salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $222K | 70 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $220K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸California | $205K | 107 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $198K | 201 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $186K | 16 |
Skills that pay more for Time series roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLM | $214K | +$16K | 48 |
| Prometheus | $212K | +$14K | 29 |
| Observability | $212K | +$14K | 34 |
| High-performance computing | $212K | +$14K | 30 |
| Go | $212K | +$14K | 33 |
Top-paying companies
Highest-paying open Time series roles
All Time series jobs- Engineering Manager, Research Data PlatformAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$405K - $850KMachine LearningBigQueryClickHouse
- Software Engineer, ObservabilityOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KKubernetesAWSPrometheus
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics PlatformOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KHybridRustC++ClickHouse
- Data Center Controls EngineerAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA$320K - $405KRemotePythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Research EngineerAntimetal · 🇺🇸HQ - NYC$200K - $400KPythonTypeScriptLLM
- Senior Software Development EngineerLambda · Bellevue Office$284K - $378KHybridSeniorTerraformMachine LearningLinux
- Senior Engineering Manager, Observability EngineeringTemporal · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington$220K - $362KRemoteSeniorGCPAzureLLM
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Behavioral DetectionRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$295K - $345KSeniorPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Senior Staff Data Scientist, RoboticsAgility Robotics · Remote$218K - $340KRemoteLead and abovePythonSQLData quality
- Principal Engineer - Perf and BenchmarkingCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$206K - $333KLead and aboveLLMPyTorchCI/CD
- Sr. Software Engineer, ObservabilityxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorRustGoScala
- Senior Staff Applied Scientist, Science PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$232K - $326KRemoteLead and abovePythonSQLMachine Learning
- Senior Data Scientist, Monetary PolicyRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$264K - $323KSeniorMachine LearningQuantitative analysisCausal inference
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Forecasting & ScenariosReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$230K - $322KRemoteLead and aboveMachine LearningAITime series
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & GovernanceDatabricks · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California$229K - $314KLead and aboveSQLLLMData governance
- Senior Manager, Advanced AnalyticsJustworks · 🇺🇸New York, New York$240K - $310KSeniorPythonSQLData governance
- Engineering Manager, Robot Data VisualizationZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $309KTypeScriptC++WebAssembly
- Principal Software Engineer - Storage Engine - ElasticsearchElastic · 🇺🇸United States$160K - $304KLead and aboveJavaPostgreSQLMongoDB
- Robot Infrastructure Engineer - Collection ToolingApplied · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale$150K - $300KPythonROSTime series
- Sr. Fullstack Software EngineerReliable Robotics · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$215K - $300KSeniorPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
Questions about Time series pay
- What is the average Time series salary?
- $201K a year on average and $198K at the median, across 211 open Time series 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 $165K to $225K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Time series pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), OpenAI ($356K), Reddit ($268K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a time series a high-paying job?
- The median Time series posting advertises $198K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 14% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a time series?
- A tenth of the postings offer $260K a year or more; the highest open Time series role advertises up to $850K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Time series salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $198K a year is about $95 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,458 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $79 to $108 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Time series roles?
- Postings that ask for LLM (+$16K, 48 postings), Prometheus (+$14K, 29 postings), Observability (+$14K, 34 postings) advertise more than the $198K median of all Time series 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 Time series roles at companies is $198K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $225K. Counted from 211 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/time-series/
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