2026 Salary & Compensation Guides

AI engineers ship production LLM and ML systems.

$190K-$480K base + equity

Machine learning engineers operationalize models in production: training pipelines, feature stores, model serving, evaluation, and ML platform.

$190K-$520K base + equity

Founding engineers are the first 1-5 technical hires at pre-seed and seed companies.

$180K-$340K base + 0.25%-2.5% equity

Product managers at venture-backed startups own discovery, prioritization, and outcome.

$160K-$420K base + equity

Medical Science Liaisons are field-based scientific experts who engage KOLs and external stakeholders.

$165K-$400K base + bonus

Director of Clinical Operations owns trial execution: CRO oversight, site management, enrollment, vendor selection, and study budgets.

$210K-$440K base + bonus + equity

Principal Scientists lead research programs at biotech and pharma companies.

$185K-$380K base + bonus + equity

Regulatory Affairs leaders own FDA, EMA, and global agency strategy through pivotal trials, BLA/NDA filings, and lifecycle management.

$240K-$580K base + bonus + equity

Pharmacovigilance leaders own drug safety reporting, signal detection, aggregate report authorship (PSUR/PBRER, DSUR), and regulatory inspection readiness.

$145K-$380K base + bonus + equity

CyberArk engineers own privileged access management (PAM) across enterprise environments: Vault, PVWA, CPM, PSM, EPM, and Conjur deployments.

$135K-$260K base + bonus

AI research engineers bridge ML research and production engineering.

$250K-$700K base + significant equity

VPs of Sales own the revenue motion.

$260K-$500K base / $480K-$1M+ OTE

Enterprise AEs sell into Fortune 1000 accounts with ACVs of $100K-$5M+.

$150K-$260K base / $300K-$650K OTE

The Chief Medical Officer is the senior clinical and medical leader at a venture-backed biotech.

$420K-$680K base + 35-50% bonus + equity

VP Clinical Development leads trial design, execution, and readouts at biotech and clinical-stage pharma.

$340K-$580K base + bonus + equity

CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls) leaders own the manufacturability of a biotech program.

$220K-$520K base + bonus + equity

Quality Assurance leaders own GxP compliance across development, manufacturing, and clinical operations at biotech.

$220K-$540K base + bonus + equity

Bioinformatics scientists build the computational backbone of modern drug discovery, genomics, and diagnostics.

$145K-$360K base + equity

Translational Medicine leaders bridge preclinical pharmacology and first-in-human trials.

$320K-$540K base + bonus + equity

Business Development leaders at biotech own out-licensing, in-licensing, partnerships, and strategic transactions.

$240K-$580K base + bonus + equity