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Uber offered as much as $410,000 in base salary to key talent. Here's 2025 pay data on US tech jobs.

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Some Uber corporate employees have base salaries of over $200,000, according to federal visa data. Mike Blake/Reuters
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Uber is hiring people as it tries to become a "super app." So how much is it paying them?

You're probably familiar with the millions of gig workers who drive you to the airport or deliver your food. Now, Uber is looking to expand those services — with self-driving cars, for example — as well as offer customers targeted offers.

"We're slowly moving towards a super app of sorts," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said.

Some of the people whom Uber has hired as it tries to make that vision a reality have come from outside the US via H-1B visas.

Companies are required to submit this work visa data, which includes salary information, to the US Department of Labor for all foreign hires. However, the compensation figures don't include equity or other benefits that employees can receive in addition to their base pay. The filings also include industry average pay rates for US workers.

The process for obtaining an H-1B visa, however, is changing.

In September, President Donald Trump instituted a $100,000 fee for the visa. And proposed changes to H-1B visa rules would tilt the already competitive visa lottery in favor of the highest-paid applicants, lawyers told Business Insider.

Uber filed to hire 945 workers through the H-1B visa program during the 2025 federal fiscal year, which ended on September 30, according to filings with the US Department of Labor. That's more than the 778 filings that Uber made during 2024.

Here's a look at the jobs that Uber disclosed salaries for:

Computer and Information Systems Managers can make up to $410,000

Staff Software Engineer: $225,200 to $258,800

Manager, Engineering: $231,700 to $287,000

Manager, Applications Development: $195,600 to $210,500

Senior Manager: $234,100 to $299,700

Staff Software Engineer, TLM: $242,000 to $249,300

Senior Director, Engineering: $360,000 to $410,000

Data Scientists can earn up to $207,200

Scientist, Tech: $111,966 to $176,400

Senior Scientist, Tech: $151,700 to $207,200

Senior Applied Scientist: $186,307 to $208,062

Staff Scientist, Tech: $219,100 to $250,000

Applied Scientist: $133,100 to $179,100

Data Scientist: $125,950 to $153,700

Data Scientist, Tech: $129,750 to $160,700

Data Scientist III: $150,000 to $175,019

Data Analyst: $156,600 to $161,000

Data Analyst, Tech: $116,750 to $162,200

Senior Data Scientist: $150,400 to $164,300

Information Technology Project Managers can earn up to $215,900

Product Manager: $158,700 to $197,000

Senior Technical Program Manager: $202,500 to $231,400

Senior Program Manager: $144,500 to $170,100

Operations Research Analysts can make up to $185,300

Business Analyst - Operations II: $110,075 to $117,554

Scientist, Tech: $149,650 to $174,900

Senior Scientist, Tech: $169,800 to $185,300

Senior Operations and Logistics Manager: $135,600 to $142,850

Regional Operations Manager: $101,300 to $140,950

Manager, Sales Operations: $157,400 to $166,900

Manager, Central Operations: $157,100 to $161,900

Senior Program Manager: $143,000 to $178,800

Strategic Operations Manager: $111,900 to $166,600

Software Developers can make up to $312,700

Machine Learning Engineer: $178,900 to $198,500

Senior Machine Learning Engineer: $219,900 to $235,500

Software Engineer: $98,516 to $198,500

Software Engineer II: $113,308 to $135,005

Software Engineer III: $131,003 to $188,084

Staff Software Engineer: $207,800 to $273,000

Staff Software Engineer, TLM: $246,400 to $263,000

Senior Staff Engineer: $260,400 to $312,700

Senior Software Engineer: $151,819 to $242,000

Staff Applications Developer: $225,100 to $251,100

Senior Applications Developer: $179,500 to $209,700

Other positions can make up to $206,000

Manager, Technical Accounting: $164,600 to $166,900

Manager, Strategy and Planning: $155,000 to $173,600

Senior Manager, Strategic Finance: $192,300 to $206,000

Manager, Central Operations: $140,900 to $160,200

Product Designer: $157,100 to $174,600

Business Insider has been collecting pay data for tech companies. Find more here.

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Alex Bitter
Alex Bitter is a senior retail reporter covering the gig economy, food, and retail. His work focuses major gig delivery and ride-hailing apps, including Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Walmart's Spark. He is interested in everything from what it's like to work on the apps to the companies' business strategies.Some of his recent stories feature gig workers who have been deactivated on the apps, DoorDash hiring traditional employees to make deliveries, gig workers' use of bots, and gig work expanding into new professions, such as nursing.Alex has also written about Aldi's US expansionStarbucks' turnaround efforts, and the fallout from Kraft-Heinz's budget cutting. Convenience store chain Sheetz ended its "smile policy" after his reporting.Before joining Insider in September 2020, he wrote about consumer and retail companies for S&P Global Market Intelligence. He's a graduate of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and grew up on the Big Island.Alex lives in the Washington, DC, area, where you can find him studying ancient coins or searching for Civil War artifacts with his metal detector in his free time.Got a tip? Reach out at abitter@bjinnox.com or via encrypted messaging app Signal at +1 (808) 854-4501.