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NewsBreak Salary

NewsBreak pays a median of $194K ($149K–$212K) across 19 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $149K–$212K salary range

Median: $194K  ·  Based on 19 public NewsBreak job postings  ·  Updated July 1, 2026


This NewsBreak salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

NewsBreak · pay benchmark · updated July 1, 2026
$194K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$149K–$212K
Typical range
$400K view JD
Highest base · Matching Algorithm Engineer
19
Open roles
~5 yrs
Typical exp.
+10
19 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 63% of roles mention equity
IC salary by seniority
Mid
$165K (5)
Senior
$203K (9)
Salary by department · median & top base
engineering
$200K · $300K top (9)
Highest-paying skills
Embeddings $210KLLMs $208KMachine Learning $203KPython $200K

Highest-paying open roles at NewsBreak

NewsBreak salary by department

  • engineering: $200K median · $300K top base — Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI Platform (view JD) (9 roles)

NewsBreak salary by seniority

  • Mid: $165K median · $230K top base — Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Post-Training (view JD) (5)
  • Senior: $203K median · $342K top base — Local POI Knowledge Graph (view JD) (9)

What NewsBreak looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Python (4) · PyTorch (3) · Java (3) · TensorFlow (2) · Scikit-Learn (2) · Kafka (1) · Redshift (1) · AWS (1) · Hugging Face (1) · Scala (1).

Benefits & perks at NewsBreak

Commonly listed: bonus (12) · dental (11) · vision (11) · hsa-fsa (11) · 401k (11) · commuter (11) · pto (11) · parental (7).

About NewsBreak

NewsBreak is Series C stage · 11–50 employees · founded 2009 · HQ Knoxville, Tennessee. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at NewsBreak

Roles typically ask for around 5 years of experience (up to 8+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 10 that do, Bachelor's and Master's and PhD 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; 63% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

NewsBreak total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 100% of roles list a bonus; 9% include commission; common structures: salaried, hourly. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

NewsBreak hiring activity

NewsBreak has 19 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 19 public job postings with disclosed pay. 10 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (19 in the last 90).

💼 Similar companies hiring

Compare NewsBreak's pay with companies in the same space:

CompanyMedian payvs NewsBreakStage
iSpot.tv$129K↓ -34%Series C
Klaviyo$173K↓ -11%Public
Zeta Global$166K↓ -14%Public
DoubleVerify$104K↓ -46%Public
Swayable$150K↓ -23%Seed
LeanData$153K↓ -21%Series C

💸 Companies that pay more than NewsBreak

Peregrine Technologies · Amplitude · Coframe · Temporal · OpenArt AI

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Common questions

What does NewsBreak pay?
The median pay is $194K, with a typical range of $149K–$212K, based on 19 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at NewsBreak?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Matching Algorithm Engineer, at $163K–$400K base.

Which team pays the most at NewsBreak?
The engineering team, at a $200K median.

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 19 public NewsBreak 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 July 1, 2026.

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