AI Engineer salaries
Monthly net pay from 38 answers since 2025. In 2026 the median is ₺82,500; the middle half earns ₺50,500–₺112,500.
- 2026 median
- ₺82,500
- Last year
- +36%
- 2026 answers
- 19
Monthly net pay by year
- 2026 +36%
Amounts are in each year's nominal lira; in years of high inflation most of the rise is prices, not purchasing power.
2026 distribution · point at a year on the chart
19 people- Bottom 10%
- ₺38,500
- Lower quartile (P25)
- ₺50,500
- Median
- ₺82,500
- Upper quartile (P75)
- ₺112,500
- Top 10%
- ₺157,500
The bottom and top tenth are shown instead of the single lowest and highest answer: the extremes are either mistakes or one person, and showing one answer makes that person recognisable.
2026, by experience
Not enough answers this year for a breakdown.
The line is the median, the light band the middle half.
2026, by level
Not enough answers this year for a breakdown.
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Every year
| Year | Answers | Lower quartile | Median | Upper quartile | Against the year before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19 | ₺50,500 | ₺82,500 | ₺112,500 | +36% |
| 2025 | 19 | ₺40,500 | ₺60,500 | ₺82,500 | — |
Where do the numbers come from?
- The Önceki Yazılımcı salary surveys, run every year from 2025 to 2026: 14,058 answers in all.
Used with the survey author's permission. We keep nothing per person; this page only holds group summaries.
- Only groups of at least 15 people are shown; no figure of a smaller group is published.
- The survey asks for a range; each value is the middle of its range, rounded to 500 lira. A value that falls in an open top range is written with "≥".
- Only answers from people working in Turkey and paid in Turkish lira count.
- Amounts are each year's nominal lira, not adjusted for inflation.