{"id":37087,"date":"2025-08-01T01:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:37:15","slug":"apple-salaries-revealed-how-much-ai-staffers-engineers-make-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37087\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Salaries Revealed: How Much AI Staffers, Engineers Make in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the race for AI supremacy consumes Big Tech, Apple lags behind<\/a> many of its peers.<\/p>\n

Four of Apple’s top AI researchers have defected to Meta in the past month, Bloomberg reported<\/a>, and Apple has upped pay for researchers within its Apple Foundation Models (AFM) group, Bloomberg reported \u2014 another symptom of the ongoing talent wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apple<\/a> unveiled its Apple Intelligence AI platform last year<\/a>. At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, said Apple’s work on Siri needed “more time<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

That said, Apple is hiring for hundreds of roles<\/a> in machine learning and AI, and nabbing a job at the company remains a dream<\/a> for many.<\/p>\n

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a 2023 interview with the singer Dua Lipa that the company hires from “all walks of life,<\/a>”\u00a0and he said he prizes qualities like collaboration, curiosity, and creativity.<\/p>\n

“Fundamentally, we all believe that one plus one equals three,” Cook said in the interview. “Your idea plus my idea is better than the individual ideas on their own.”<\/p>\n

In addition to competitive salaries, Apple offers various benefits<\/a>, from stock grants to discounts on its products.<\/p>\n

While Apple and other Big Tech firms don’t disclose salary information publicly, the federal filings they make when hiring outside the US can hint at pay ranges for certain roles. That said, the data only refers to foreign hires and doesn’t include equity or other benefits employees can receive on top of their base pay.<\/p>\n

The Apple salary filings show a machine learning engineer or researcher can take home as much as $312,200, while a human interface designer can earn as much as $468,500.<\/p>\n

Apple’s data scientists can earn $322,400 in base pay, while software development engineers can pocket as much as $378,700.<\/p>\n

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Apple pays across other key roles, based on applications from the second quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n

Engineering roles<\/p>\n

CPU Implementation Engineering: $103,164 to $264,200<\/p>\n

Design for Test Engineer: $131,352 to $293,800<\/p>\n

Design Verification: $103,164 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Electronics Engineer: $108,160 to $264,200<\/p>\n

Engineering Project\/Program Manager: $105,550 to $301,400<\/p>\n

FE Engineering: $125,694 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Hardware Development: $124,942 to $293,800<\/p>\n

Hardware Systems Engineering: $125,495 to $378,700<\/p>\n

Manufacturing Quality: $142,293 to $227,600<\/p>\n

Module Design Engineer: $108,796 to $329,600<\/p>\n

Physical Design Engineer: $101,982 to $341,200<\/p>\n

Production Services Engineer: $122,800 to $293,800<\/p>\n

Reliability Engineering: $128,300 to $264,200<\/p>\n

RF\/Analog\/Mixed Signal Engineering: $131,352 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Silicon Validation Engineering: $103,164 to $329,600<\/p>\n

System Product Design Engineer: $103,164 to $312,200<\/p>\n

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Tools and Automation Engineer: $105,602 to $293,800<\/p>\n

Wireless Systems Engineering: $128,300 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Wireless Systems Validation Engineer: $126,672 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Data roles<\/p>\n

Data Engineer: $105,602 to $234,700<\/p>\n

Data Scientist: $105,550 to $322,400<\/p>\n

AI roles<\/p>\n

Machine Learning: $126,880 to $329,600<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bMachine Learning Engineer: $143,100 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Machine Learning Research: $114,100 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Software development roles<\/p>\n

AR\/VR Software Development: $129,805 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Human Interface Designer: $135,400 to $468,500<\/p>\n

Software Developer: $132,267 to $264,200<\/p>\n

Software Development Engineer: $132,267 to $378,700<\/p>\n

Software Development Engineer – Applications: $132,267 to $378,700<\/p>\n

Software Development Engineer – Data: $135,400 to $329,600<\/p>\n

Software Development Engineer – Firmware: $126,880 to $312,200<\/p>\n

Software Development Engineer – Test: $94,640 to $329,600<\/p>\n

Software Development Engineering Manager: $166,691 to $378,700<\/p>\n

Software Engineering Applications: $103,164 to $378,700<\/p>\n

Software Engineering Applications Manager: $171,400 to $378,700<\/p>\n

Software Engineering Systems: $126,880 to $329,600<\/p>\n

Other types of roles<\/p>\n

Professional Services Consultant: $100,200 to $258,700<\/p>\n

Strategic Sourcing Manager: $110,600 to $286,400<\/p>\n

Supply Demand Planning: $100,200 to $209,900<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the race for AI supremacy consumes Big Tech, Apple lags behind many of its peers. Four of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,21754,21748,21756,733,4308,3845,4056,1941,1944,21757,21753,21752,21750,21755,8958,21749,21751,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-37087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-supremacy","tag-apple-salaries","tag-apple-salary-datum","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-big-tech","tag-bloomberg","tag-business-insider","tag-company","tag-design-engineer","tag-idea","tag-machine","tag-pay","tag-researcher","tag-role","tag-software-development-engineer","tag-software-engineering","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}