As of early 2026, Prompt Engineers in the U.S. earn an average salary of approximately $100,000–$125,000 annually, with typical ranges spanning from $60,000 to over $200,000 depending on experience, location, and company. Top earners and senior roles at major tech firms can command significantly higher salaries, sometimes exceeding $200,000–$300,000 annually.
Yooooo you think I could bullshit my way into one of these? I’m pretty good at making stuff in stable diffusion and I can vibe code with google gemini telling me what to do.
Go for it!
Hell.
I may go for it
I could use some extra money for… reasons
Those Simpsons gifs aren’t cheap
Someone who is good with money help me, my family is dying
You just need to be more like Fidel, and by that I mean steal a trillion dollar bill from an evil capitalist.
everything in the quoted paragraph angers me way more than it should
That’s a lot of money for absolute bullshit bologna work
If you can cheat your way into a job that does this, do it. Any way to get money from the corps.
Is your dad the one in charge of the company? Or your uncle? Some other close relation or possibly a family friend? That’s the only way to get one of these jobs.
I’d recommend finding out who the CEO of the company is and then doing an elaborate stunt to convince them that you are their long lost child, so you can get the job.
In my experience these “averages” are always obscenely overvalued. My last job was supposed to be in the $100k range but I don’t know a single person in that company who was making over $60k.
If you can live with the fact that your employer likely will be participating in depriving some small town of potable water through their partnership/purchase of racks/compute/tokens in a datacenter for whatever they use Claude for, sure I guess
