What does TikTok pay?
Median total pay is about $197,821 per year, with most roles between $101,057 and $271,800 — based on salary ranges disclosed in TikTok's own job postings.
$197,821
Median total pay
$101,057
25th percentile
$271,800
75th percentile
118
Posted salaries
Highest-paying roles at TikTok
Senior Machine Learning Engineer Manager - TikTok Trust & Safety
$308,000–$588,000
Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM, Trust and Safety
$244,800–$588,000
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (LLM & Agentic AI - TikTok - Content Ecology Local Services)
$218,400–$480,000
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Global E-Commerce – Recommendation (Multiple Positions)
$241,680–$456,000
Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Multiple Positions)
$275,850–$450,000
Multimedia Arch Senior Frontend Engineer
$212,800–$450,000
TikTok salary FAQ
What is the median salary at TikTok?
Based on 118 salaried US roles currently posted, the median total pay at TikTok is about $197,821 per year.
What is the salary range at TikTok?
Most posted roles fall between $101,057 and $271,800, with the full range spanning $28,000 to $588,000.
Does TikTok publish salaries?
These figures come from TikTok's own job postings (salary ranges disclosed on listings), aggregated by Hireoven. Actual offers vary by level, location and negotiation.
Salary figures are aggregated from disclosed ranges in TikTok's active US job postings on Hireoven's live index. Annualized; hourly listings excluded. Actual compensation varies by level, location and negotiation. Last updated 2026.