Prompt Engineer salary
What a prompt engineer actually earns, from 55 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
What the number means
A prompt engineer earns a blended US median near 109,200 dollars, with the typical middle running from 80,500 dollars to 145,600 dollars. Demand is rated moderate, and 5% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is conversation designer, at 66 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open prompt engineer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Senior Prompt Designer at LiveCareerPoland · Remote3d agoApply
Senior Ai Prompt Engineer — Build Generative Chat Flows Lima at NTT DataLima1w agoApply
Remote Mathematics Ai Tutor & Prompt Designer at MindriftBaja California · Remote1w agoApply- Prompt Engineer (Lima) at NTT DataLima1w agoApply
- Prompt Engineer Lima at NTT DataLima1w agoApply
AI Prompt Engineer at BPM LLPIndia · Remote3w agoApply
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'949/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 25 Spezialisten in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 119'388 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a prompt engineer profile already covers.
- 294 open machine learning engineer roles$172,210 median · +$63,010 · 28% readiness
- 600 open solutions architect roles$162,988 median · +$53,788 · 37% readiness
- 393 open ai engineer roles$141,460 median · +$32,260 · 52% readiness
- 23 open robotics engineer roles$128,468 median · +$19,268 · 19% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a prompt engineer.
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Quick answers
How much does a prompt engineer make?
The blended US median is about 109,200 dollars, with a typical range from 80,500 dollars to 145,600 dollars.
Is prompt engineer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated moderate in our July 2026 corpus, with 5% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a prompt engineer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is conversation designer, at 66 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code null. Live corpus 55 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.