Open secret! Software engineers, product managers get salary in Bill Gates company Microsoft, know know

New Delhi. Microsoft has recently been in the news due to wrong reasons, such as global trimming of more than 9,000 employees. At that time, the company confirmed that it is becoming more dependent on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The company has invested billions of dollars in AI. Especially in the Copilot Tool on his Windows and in Openai, he has made the biggest investment. However, the news of tension between the two also came in the middle.

Amidst all these things, Microsoft is once again in the news. But this time not for the trimming, but about the salary. Business Insider has released a report regarding this, revealing that according to internal documents of Microsoft, employees are being encouraged to use more AI tools. With this, managers can give them retention bonus, especially those employees who are contributing to AI initiatives. It is being said that employees working in AI departments in Microsoft get more salary than their non-AI colleagues.

software Engineer : $ 82,971 – $ 284,000
Product Manager: $ 122,800 – $ 250,000
Data Engineering: $ 144,855 – $ 264,000
Data Science: $ 121,200 – $ 274,500
Customer Experience Engineering: $ 126,422 – $ 239,585
Technical Program Management: $ 120,900 – $ 238,000

Application Science: $ 127,200 – $ 261,103
hardware Engineer : $ 136,000 – $ 270,641
Claude Network Engineering: $ 122,700 – $ 220,716
Recovery, Application and Data Science: $ 85,821 – $ 208,800
Business Analytex: $ 159,300 – $ 191,580

Note that these range only reflect the base salary of foreign employees, which are according to more than 5,400 visa applications, which were received in early 2025.