Data Engineer vs ML Engineer
Side-by-side salary and market comparison from real job listings.
Data Engineer
ML Engineer
Median salary
$8,565,000
$78,320,578,321
25th percentile
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$130,500,165,250
75th percentile
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Top 10% earn above
$78,000,078,000
$NaN
Listings with salary
231
279
Remote/hybrid
26%
23%
Top skills: Data Engineer
data-engineeringdata-engineersenior-data-engineeretl-developmentdata science & analytics
Top skills: ML Engineer
machine-learning-engineeringsoftware engineeringai-engineeringsenior-machine-learning-engineersenior-ai-ml-engineer
ML Engineer roles pay 914326% more than Data Engineer roles at the median.
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