Meta salaries revealed: How much the social media giant pays engineers, AI researchers, and more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Business 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 earned $400,000. And a product manager took...