Data study ·
From €50,000 to €115,000 a year: what AI professionals earn
Original title, in French: “De 50 000 à 115 000 euros par an : découvrez les salaires des professionnels de l'IA”
- Publication
- Journal du Net (France)
- Author
- Raphael Hazan
- Published on
- 22 September 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
Recruitment firm Silkhom has published a salary barometer for artificial intelligence professionals in France, based on an analysis of more than 25,000 profiles supported between 2019 and 2026. Prompt engineer is the lowest-paid technical role (€49,700 average gross annual salary), while AI researcher comes top (€86,800). On the management side, chief AI officer is the best paid at €115,800. The barometer identifies five factors behind salary variation: geographical area, technical specialisation, type of employer, the company's AI maturity and command of English. It also indicates that France published more than 166,000 AI-related job postings in 2024, making it the largest European market ahead of Germany and the United Kingdom.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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49.7 EUR thousand
average gross annual salary, prompt engineer
France
« Avec une moyenne de 49 700 euros bruts annuels, le métier de prompt engineer est le moins rémunérateur du secteur. »
Source: Baromètre Silkhom
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86.8 EUR thousand
average gross annual salary, artificial intelligence researcher
France
« Parmi eux, le poste de chercheur en intelligence artificielle est celui qui offre le meilleur salaire brut annuel avec 86 800 euros. »
Source: Baromètre Silkhom
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115.8 EUR thousand
average gross annual salary, chief AI officer
France
« le chief AI officer, avec 115 800 euros (fourchette : 80 000 à 160 000 euros) »
Source: Baromètre Silkhom
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103.3 EUR thousand
average gross annual salary, head of data and AI
France
« le head of data et AI, avec 103 300 euros (fourchette : 72 000 à 140 000 euros) »
Source: Baromètre Silkhom
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166,000 job postings
number of AI-related job postings published in France in 2024
France, 2024
« la France a publié plus de 166 000 offres d’emploi liées à l’IA en 2024, soit le "premier marché européen devant l’Allemagne et le Royaume-Uni". »
Source: Baromètre Silkhom
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms · All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Silkhom (study author)
- Keywords
- AI salaries, AI recruitment, chief AI officer, prompt engineer, salary barometer, job market
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Journal du Net and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.