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Is $180,000/year not a decent salary in the Seattle area?

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Not for top AI talent. That starts at $400k/yr

Hope they save because "AI" won't be hot past 2020.

I will make sure to revisit this comment in 2020.

AI won't disappear definitely. However, more graduates will enter market as we move forward. Thus there will be more supply than demand which leads to drop in salaries.

This has happened in many markets in recent years. Don't you recall big data hype around 2007? You would be considered as God if you can barely install Hadoop back then.

Competent big data folks still pull down $300-400k fairly easily. I’m talking about people who _really_ understand the field and have a track record, not “graduates with a degree”.

What makes you think that? Media? What are you including under the umbrella of AI? ML, Deep Learning? Are you in the industry?

What industry?

I sell AI robots and its bullshit

Ah, different use case then as opposed to using AI or ML for drug discovery.

I agree, robots are hit and miss

You mean because it'll take all our jobs, including programming AI? ;)

Au contraire, my friend, it’s only in the beginning of an upward hockey stick.

starts at 400k? where do you get that number? I can imagine a director 3 type position, which would be true for most fields. But interviewing, talking with recruiters, and looking at salaries on glass door, facebook pays a median 130k. Amazon pays closer to the 100k side with a maximum of 165k, an absolute ceiling that shall not be passed. There is stock, but even being equal to base, still no where near a starting 400k

We pay this much to strong PhDs with a good publication record. So do Google and FB. Must be able to code really well, though.

Someone coming in as a research scientist (ie, the people that would have become professors) is going to be making more.

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