ML Engineer salary in Sydney.
Live salary data from Adzuna, calibrated against Hustle Report member submissions. Updated daily.
The 25 / 50 / 75 percentile band.
25th percentile
A$144,000
Median (50th)
A$192,000
Calibrated estimate
75th percentile
A$269,000
Percentiles describe a snapshot of advertised salaries. Real take-home depends on tax band, pension contributions and bonuses. Hustle Report members can plug their actual numbers into the in-app calculator for a precise picture.
ML Engineer market in Sydney.
ML engineers split into two markets in 2026: traditional MLOps (training pipelines, feature stores, model serving) and LLM-adjacent (RAG, agents, eval). The LLM segment commands a 25-50% premium over the headline median; senior contractors regularly bill £900-£1,400/day.
Sydney specifically: Sydney hosts the largest tech, fintech and professional services market in Australia, with a strong concentration of US tech APAC HQs (Atlassian HQ, Canva, Google, Salesforce). Salaries quoted in AUD; senior tech roles match or exceed London on a take-home basis.
Members in this role typically add A$21,400/year.
Modeled on a conservative 4 hours/week of contract work at the role's implied hourly equivalent (A$107/hr). The Hustle Report Monday editorial finds the briefs and ranks them by fit so the time stays small.
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