Machine Learning Engineer Salary in New York — What You'll Actually Make

Entry Level$128,000
Mid Level$176,000
Senior Level$256,000
/yearAverage Monthly: $15,556/month
Demand:🔥 Hot

Reality Check

TLDR

NYC pays almost as much as SF but taxes are brutal. State plus city income tax can take 12%+ on top of federal.

How to Earn More

  • 1.Publish papers or contribute to open-source ML — it is the best resume signal in ML hiring
  • 2.Specialize in LLMs and transformer architectures — the hottest niche in all of tech right now
  • 3.Get into ML infrastructure — MLOps engineers are scarcer and paid almost as much as researchers

Top Paying Industries

Big TechAI StartupsAutonomous Vehicles

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