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Salaries in California
The average salary in California is $164.3–233.7K per year, based on 75 jobs. Jobs in California pay 22% above the average salary of $136.1–189.2K for jobs listed on Get AI Careers. Browse salary data across 3 locations in California.
Median salary
$199.1K
Based on 75 jobs · 22% more than the average salary on Get AI Careers
25th percentile
$139.5K
Average
$199K
75th percentile
$263.2K
Cities with salary data in California
Average salaries across 3 cities in California, ranked by average salary.
Top paying titles in California
Highest paying job titles in California, ranked by average salary.
Machine Learning Engineering
Avg. $162.7–235.3K · 38 Jobs
Software Engineering
Avg. $162.8–229.3K · 38 Jobs
Platform Engineering
Avg. $154.9–210.8K · 30 Jobs
Data Engineering
Avg. $149.6–195.1K · 26 Jobs
AI Engineering
Avg. $138.2–196K · 21 Jobs
Data Analytics
Avg. $108.3–148.2K · 20 Jobs
Backend Engineering
Avg. $171.4–241.3K · 19 Jobs
Machine Learning Engineer
Avg. $178.9–257.8K · 17 Jobs
Customer Success
Avg. $97.1–127.9K · 16 Jobs
Business Intelligence
Avg. $112.9–158.3K · 16 Jobs
Top paying skills in California
Highest paying skills in California, ranked by average salary.
Python
Avg. $151.6–209.8K · 141 Jobs
SQL
Avg. $124.8–172.7K · 75 Jobs
AWS
Avg. $153.5–208.7K · 60 Jobs
Machine Learning
Avg. $161.4–232.9K · 57 Jobs
Kubernetes
Avg. $160–227.2K · 54 Jobs
CI/CD
Avg. $149.7–198.4K · 43 Jobs
PyTorch
Avg. $162.7–243.9K · 42 Jobs
Terraform
Avg. $147.5–199.1K · 35 Jobs
Docker
Avg. $139.8–190.1K · 34 Jobs
GCP
Avg. $166.9–227.4K · 33 Jobs
Top paying companies
Highest paying companies, ranked by average salary.
MMercor
Avg. $127.2–172.9K · 27 Jobs
Contact Government Services
Avg. $103.8–140.8K · 11 Jobs
SSpotify
Avg. $177.5–253.6K · 7 Jobs
WWorkday
Avg. $135.5–217K · 6 Jobs
ZZoox
Avg. $212–294.2K · 5 Jobs
California salary FAQs
All salary figures are converted to annual equivalents in USD. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.