JURIKOM (Jurnal Riset Komputer)
Vol. 12 No. 6 (2025): Desember 2025

Predicting AI Job Salary Classes Through a Comparative Study of Machine Learning Algorithms

Vincent, Vincent (Unknown)
Robet, Robet (Unknown)
Edi Wijaya (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2025

Abstract

The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought significant transformation to the global job market, particularly in salary structures across various AI-related professions. This study aims to classify AI job salaries into three categories—Low, Medium, and High—using supervised machine learning algorithms. The dataset, sourced from Kaggle, combines two real-world datasets featuring key attributes such as experience level, job type, education level, technical skills, remote work ratio, and salary in USD. Preprocessing techniques include One-Hot Encoding for categorical data, StandardScaler for normalization, and MultiLabelBinarizer to handle multi-skill entries. Four machine learning models—Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and XGBoost—were trained and evaluated using consistent pipelines, with evaluation metrics including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, applying macro-averaging to address class imbalance. Logistic Regression achieved the highest performance with 85.4% accuracy and 77.6% F1-score, followed by Gradient Boosting with 84.8% accuracy and 76.3% F1-score. High-salary classes were predicted with higher precision and recall than low-salary classes, indicating skewness in class distribution. Feature importance analysis shows that experience, remote work ratio, and key skills such as Python and SQL significantly affect prediction accuracy. This study demonstrates that traditional machine learning methods, when applied with appropriate preprocessing, can effectively support salary classification and labor market analysis in the AI domain.

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Journal Info

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jurikom

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Subject

Computer Science & IT Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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JURIKOM (Jurnal Riset Komputer) membahas ilmu dibidang Informatika, Sistem Informasi, Manajemen Informatika, DSS, AI, ES, Jaringan, sebagai wadah dalam menuangkan hasil penelitian baik secara konseptual maupun teknis yang berkaitan dengan Teknologi Informatika dan Komputer. Topik utama yang ...