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• Base salary and new hire equity benchmarks by level for AI Engineering, ML Engineering, and AI Research Scientist—including where each job family leads and where they converge

• Why competitive pressure at the point of hire is not showing up in base pay, and what that means for your offer strategy

• The senior-junior split reshaping AI hiring: entry-level offers softening while senior levels keep climbing

• How band width drives adherence, and why narrow ranges break down fastest in a market moving this quickly

• Turnover benchmarks for AI and ML talent compared to software engineering—and the geographic concentration limiting your addressable pool

• Nua Group's framework for identifying which kind of AI company you are, and how that should shape your job architecture and pay structure