Cruise has become one of the autonomous-vehicle industry's leaders and, based on salary data the General Motors-owned company shared with the US government, its pay is competitive with big-name rivals like Waymo and Aurora Innovation.
The US Office of Foreign Labor Certification requires companies to disclose compensation for permanent and temporary employees from outside the US to ensure the firms aren't paying them less than their peers' average wage. The data Business Insider analyzed is from 2020, and represents a range among some of the employees included in Cruise's disclosures.
Cruise did not respond to a request for comment.
Here's how much some Cruise employees make each year.
- Engineering manager: $193,187 to $231,113
- Senior machine-learning engineer: $143,630 to $208,900
- Senior network engineer: $140,987 to $198,600
- Senior software engineer: $166,545 to $208,751
- Senior systems test engineer: $140,133 to $175,533
- Senior technical product manager: $176,667 to $215,000
- Senior technical program manager: $161,900 to $206,600
- Software engineer: $119,122 to $162,400
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