How Much Do Data Science Jobs Pay in New York? (November 2026)

How pay has moved

Median base salary by month, from our monthly salary snapshots.

Highest-paying employers

1. #1

   R

   Rain

   3 salaried listings in New York

   $524,500

   median
   Data Scientist - Fraud Risk$50k – $1000k·New York, NYSenior Product Data Analyst$50k – $999k·New York, NYMachine Learning Engineer - Fraud Risk$170k – $240k·New York, NY
   All Rain roles →
2. #2

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   Anthropic

   44 salaried listings in New York

   $411,250

   median
   Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)$500k – $850k·San Francisco, CAResearch Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems$500k – $850k·San Francisco, CAResearch Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers$500k – $850k·San Francisco, CAResearch Engineer / Scientist, Pre-training$500k – $850k·RemoteResearch Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)$500k – $850k·San Francisco, CA
   All Anthropic roles →
3. #3

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   Datadog

   6 salaried listings in New York

   $335,250

   median
   AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR)$320k – $400k·New York, New York, USAStaff Research Scientist - Foundation & World Models $320k – $400k·New York, New York, USAStaff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Agents$320k – $400k·New York, New York, USAStaff Applied Scientist - Agentic Interfaces$276k – $345k·New York, New York, USAStaff Applied Scientist - Dashboards$276k – $345k·New York, New York, USA
   All Datadog roles →
4. #4

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   EvolutionIQ

   2 salaried listings in New York

   $317,800

   median
   Senior AI / ML Engineer (LLMs)$416k – $235k·RemoteSenior Machine Learning (ML) Engineer (AI Insurtech)$395k – $225k·Remote
   All EvolutionIQ roles →
5. #5

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   Attentive

   3 salaried listings in New York

   $316,800

   median
   Principal Software Engineer, Machine Learning$350k – $430k·New York, NYSenior Director, Product Management (AI/ML)$282k – $352k·New York, NYSenior Machine Learning Engineer$244k – $320k·New York, NY
   All Attentive roles →

Employers ranked by median advertised base among those with at least two salaried listings in New York; each one’s best-paying open roles are listed beneath it.