{"id":897667,"date":"2026-04-08T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/heres-how-much-meta-pays-employees-including-a-role-earning-650000\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:12:02","slug":"heres-how-much-meta-pays-employees-including-a-role-earning-650000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/heres-how-much-meta-pays-employees-including-a-role-earning-650000\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How Much Meta Pays Employees \u2014 Including a Role Earning $650,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta\u2019s 2025 work-visa data shows most workers earn between $150,000 and $250,000 in salary.<\/li>\n<li>Software engineers can make up to $450,000, while research engineers earn up to $400,000.<\/li>\n<li>The highest pay in the data went to a vice president of AI, who received a salary of $650,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meta paid some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/how-much-openai-employees-make-salaries-685000\">highest salaries in tech<\/a> last year, especially for software engineers and AI-focused roles. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-salaries-revealed-how-much-engineers-researchers-made-in-2025-2026-4\">Business Insider<\/a> review of Meta\u2019s more than 5,000 work-visa salary records found that most employees earned between $150,000 and $250,000 in base pay.<\/p>\n<p>These work-visa filings span Meta and its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/instagram-head-announces-a-strict-new-rto-policy\/500332\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/starting-a-business\/her-facebook-marketplace-side-hustle-grew-to-25000-a-month\/485244\">Facebook<\/a>, offering a rare window into pay practices across the company. The data focuses on base salary only and excludes stock grants, cash bonuses and benefits, which can dramatically increase total compensation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meta showed a willingness to pay at the very top of the market for critical technical positions last year. One software engineer earned a base salary of $450,000 per year, the highest figure reported for that role at the company. In comparison, Microsoft paid software engineers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/how-much-do-microsoft-employees-make-salaries-revealed\/494647\">$82,971 to $284,000<\/a> in salary while Google paid the same role anywhere from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/heres-how-much-google-pays-software-engineers-designers\/494506\">$109,180 to $340,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a research engineer at Meta received a base salary of $400,000, and a product manager\u2019s compensation reached $348,000. At the highest end of the salary spectrum, a vice president of AI took home a salary of $650,000, underscoring how strategically important AI leadership has become to Meta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The federal filings result from Meta hiring employees on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/heres-how-much-this-9-5-billion-company-pays-its-workers-from-data-scientists-to-software-engineers\">H-1B visas<\/a>, or visas for foreign workers with specialized skills. In September, the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/newsroom\/alerts\/h-1b-faq\">imposed a $100,000 fee<\/a> for every new H-1B visa application filed in the U.S. In response, Meta\u2019s H-1B application volume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-google-amazon-microsoft-h-1b-visa-applications-decline-2026-4\">nearly halved<\/a> in the last quarter of 2025 compared to the same quarter a year earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how much Meta paid foreign visa workers, according to filings from the 2025 fiscal year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI Research Scientist: $163,800 to $328,000<\/li>\n<li>Data Engineer: $125,068 to $270,000<\/li>\n<li>Data Scientist: $122,760 to $295,703<\/li>\n<li>Machine Learning Engineer: $165,000 to $250,602<\/li>\n<li>Machine Learning Systems Engineer: $250,000<\/li>\n<li>Product Manager, Machine Learning: $252,000<\/li>\n<li>Product Policy Manager, GenAI: $198,000<\/li>\n<li>Research Engineer Manager: $289,144<\/li>\n<li>Research Scientist: $135,516 to $302,134<\/li>\n<li>Software Engineer: $124,000 to $450,000<\/li>\n<li>Software Engineer, Machine Learning: $144,096 to $293,118<\/li>\n<li>Software Engineer Manager: $277,837 to $318,000<\/li>\n<li>User Experience Researcher: $170,000 to $242,050<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the end of 2025, Meta reported a global headcount of 78,865 employees in its <a href=\"https:\/\/d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net\/CIK-0001326801\/b919eb05-86d9-4412-a8ff-308be1afb070.pdf\">annual 10\u2011K filing<\/a>. Despite its high salaries and ongoing hiring for AI and other strategic areas, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/meta-starts-cutting-jobs-signaling-a-broader-shift-in-strategy\">continued to execute layoffs<\/a> this year and is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/meta-planning-layoffs-affecting-16000-jobs-20-workforce\">planning widespread job cuts<\/a> that could impact at least 20% of its workforce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meta has a <a href=\"https:\/\/companiesmarketcap.com\/meta-platforms\/marketcap\/\">market capitalization<\/a> of $1.44 trillion at the time of writing. In January, the company reported <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.atmeta.com\/investor-news\/press-release-details\/2026\/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results\/default.aspx\">revenue of $200.97 billion<\/a> for the 2025 fiscal year, a 22% year-over-year increase.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta\u2019s 2025 work-visa data shows most workers earn between $150,000 and $250,000 in salary.<\/li>\n<li>Software engineers can make up to $450,000, while research engineers earn up to $400,000.<\/li>\n<li>The highest pay in the data went to a vice president of AI, who received a salary of $650,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meta paid some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/how-much-openai-employees-make-salaries-685000\">highest salaries in tech<\/a> last year, especially for software engineers and AI-focused roles. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/meta-salaries-revealed-how-much-engineers-researchers-made-in-2025-2026-4\">Business Insider<\/a> review of Meta\u2019s more than 5,000 work-visa salary records found that most employees earned between $150,000 and $250,000 in base pay.<\/p>\n<p>These work-visa filings span Meta and its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/instagram-head-announces-a-strict-new-rto-policy\/500332\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/starting-a-business\/her-facebook-marketplace-side-hustle-grew-to-25000-a-month\/485244\">Facebook<\/a>, offering a rare window into pay practices across the company. The data focuses on base salary only and excludes stock grants, cash bonuses and benefits, which can dramatically increase total compensation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meta showed a willingness to pay at the very top of the market for critical technical positions last year. One software engineer earned a base salary of $450,000 per year, the highest figure reported for that role at the company. In comparison, Microsoft paid software engineers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/how-much-do-microsoft-employees-make-salaries-revealed\/494647\">$82,971 to $284,000<\/a> in salary while Google paid the same role anywhere from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/heres-how-much-google-pays-software-engineers-designers\/494506\">$109,180 to $340,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/meta-salary-data-revealed-pays-employees-role-650000\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Sherin Shibu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways Meta\u2019s 2025 work-visa data shows most workers earn between $150,000 and $250,000 in salary. Software engineers can make up to $450,000, while research engineers earn up to $400,000. The highest pay in the data went to a vice president of AI, who received a salary of $650,000. 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