TikTok salary data: How much employees in different jobs make, from data scientist to software engineer
- TikTok has been hiring aggressively in the US.
- Business Insider combed through public data to get a snapshot of how much TikTok pays US employees.
TikTok is hiring aggressively in the US, pushing into businesses like online shopping and beefing up its data-security division.
While current and former TikTok staffers have described the workplace culture as high pressure, with roles that can demand working outside of normal business hours, the company continues to attract applicants in cities across the US.
It's currently hiring for more than 2,500 jobs in the US, per listings on its careers portal — even as tech rivals like Google and Meta have slashed staff to cut costs.
Business Insider updated its analysis of how much TikTok employees make in the US, based on 2,517 US work-visa applications with salary data for around 965 jobs.
The public data, released by the US Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification, shows how much TikTok and ByteDance said they would pay foreign staffers the companies wanted to hire in the US on work visas. Companies are legally required to pay foreign workers the same wages as domestic hires, so the data gives pretty good insight into what TikTok offers for a wide swath of roles, from data science to engineering to e-commerce jobs.
It shows, for example, that a data scientist can make $120,000 to $320,000 a year and that TikTok's US Data Security division offers around $145,000 for a vulnerability management analyst.
The data includes base salaries only, not forms of compensation such as stock options or cash bonuses.
Overall, TikTok and ByteDance offered certain staffers between October 2020 and September 2022 base salaries ranging from $29 an hour to $455,600 a year for various roles, per the data.
Our full analysis breaks down salaries for jobs including product and engineering, data and research, e-commerce, and monetization and partnership-focused roles.