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General Motors Salary

General Motors Salary

General Motors pays a median of $186K ($140K–$216K) across 184 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $140K–$216K salary range

Median: $186K  ·  Based on 184 public General Motors job postings  ·  Updated September 17, 2026


This General Motors salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect the posted-range midpoint (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

General Motors · pay benchmark · updated September 17, 2026
$186K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$140K–$216K
Typical range
$454K view JD
Highest base · Principal AI / ML Engineer - Embodied AI
184
Open roles
~6 yrs
Typical exp.
+1
107 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 7% of roles mention equity · options
IC salary by seniority
Junior
$104K (6)
Mid
$106K (17)
Senior
$161K (75)
Staff
$225K (61)
Highest-paying skills
Pandas $253KNumpy $251KMachine Learning $240KDeep Learning $240KTypeScript $240KComputer Vision $228KJavaScript $222KNode.js $222K

Highest-paying open roles at General Motors

General Motors salary by seniority

  • Junior: $104K median · $190K top base — Software Engineer, AV HIL Platform and Services (view JD) (6)
  • Mid: $106K median · $212K top base — Robotics Controls Engineer (view JD) (17)
  • Senior: $161K median · $360K top base — Senior Machine Learning Engineer II (view JD) (75)
  • Staff: $225K median · $454K top base — Principal AI / ML Engineer - Embodied AI (view JD) (61)

General Motors salary — lead & management

  • Manager: $172K median · $335K top base — Engineering Manager Observability (view JD) (23)

General Motors salary by location

  • Remote: $210K median · $454K top base — Principal AI / ML Engineer - Embodied AI (view JD) (26 roles)

Remote work at General Motors

23% of General Motors's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly. Remote roles run a $210K median vs $95K onsite.

What General Motors looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Python (54) · CI/CD (17) · Java (15) · PyTorch (13) · Azure (13) · GCP (12) · Kubernetes (11) · SQL (11) · Go (11) · AWS (10).

Benefits & perks at General Motors

Commonly listed: dental (133) · life-ins (133) · pto (133) · mental-health (117) · hsa-fsa (117) · 401k (117) · gym (1).

About General Motors

General Motors is Public stage · 10,001+ employees · founded 1908 · HQ Detroit, MI. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at General Motors

Roles typically ask for around 6 years of experience (up to 12+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 71 that do, Bachelor's and PhD and Master's and Associate's are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 7% of these postings reference equity (options). Equity is not included in the medians above.

General Motors total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 57% of roles list a bonus; 7% include commission; common structures: salaried, hourly. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

General Motors hiring activity

General Motors has 184 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 184 public job postings with disclosed pay. 1 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (107 in the last 90). Mostly full-time, with 16 contract roles in the mix.

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Common questions

What does General Motors pay?
The median pay is $186K, with a typical range of $140K–$216K, based on 184 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at General Motors?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Principal AI / ML Engineer - Embodied AI, at $296K–$454K base.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 184 public General Motors job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed September 17, 2026.

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