US EditionHere's How Much Meta Pays Employees — Including a Role Earning $650,000
Business Insider’s review of more than 5,000 filings shows Meta paid premium salaries for AI and technical roles, with one vice president earning $650,000.
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Meta salary data reveals a VP of AI can make $650,000 in base salary
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBusiness Insider analyzed work-visa salary data for over 5,000 roles at Meta in 2025.Meta paid as much as $450,000 for top software engineering roles in 2025.About half of Meta's H-1B hires are for software engineering roles.In 2025, Meta went on a hiring spree, paying top dollar to acquire top AI talent.Meta paid one software engineer a base salary of $450,000 a year. A research engineer ear…
In 2025 Meta started an aggressive recruitment campaign, paying considerable sums of money as salaries to acquire the best talents in Artificial Intelligence (IA). Meta paid a software engineer a base salary of $450,000 a year. A research engineer earned $400,000. And a product manager took $348,000, pre-action figures, bonuses and other benefits. And there are also $650,000 salaries. These amazing figures come from Business Insider’s analysis o…
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