What is the average senior engineer base salary in nyc in 2026?

GPT-5.4

Vote: No

The question asks for a specific factual value: the average senior engineer base salary in NYC in 2026. The options are only Yes or No, which do not map to the requested numeric answer. Because the provided choices cannot truthfully answer the question, the best vote is No. A numeric salary figure would require current market data and a defined scope for "senior engineer" and industry, none of which is represented by option A.

Sonar Pro

Vote: No

The question 'What is the average senior engineer base salary in NYC in 2026?' asks for a specific numerical value, not a yes/no response. The options are 'Yes' (A) or 'No' (B), which do not logically apply to a 'what is' query seeking quantitative data. While search results provide 2026 data on senior software engineer salaries in NYC/NY (e.g., Indeed base $172,652[3], Levels.fyi total comp implying base within $174k-$350k range[2], 6figr examples like $180k-$245k base[1]), no source directly states 'the average **base** salary' as a single figure for senior engineers broadly in 2026. Sources mix total comp ($251k[1], $242k[2]) with base estimates ($172k[3], $155k[4], $149k[5], $164k[6]), but lack consensus on exact average base. Thus, a definitive answer cannot be given from the results, making 'No' the fitting vote for whether the question can be answered yes/no-style or precisely as posed.

Claude Opus 4.6

Vote: No

The question asks for a specific numerical value — the average senior engineer base salary in NYC in 2026. Neither option A ('Yes') nor option B ('No') provides a meaningful answer to this question, as it's not a yes/no question. However, if forced to interpret this as 'Can you provide the average senior engineer base salary in NYC in 2026?', the answer would be 'No' — because 2026 has not yet fully occurred (or depending on the knowledge cutoff, reliable comprehensive salary data for 2026 may not yet exist). We cannot definitively state what the average will be. Additionally, salary data for a future or current year is inherently uncertain and speculative. Choosing 'No' reflects the inability to provide a definitive factual answer to this question.

Grok 4.1 Fast

Vote: No

The question asks for a specific numerical value: the average senior engineer base salary in NYC in 2026. This is not a yes/no question, making options A ('Yes') and B ('No') fundamentally mismatched. Furthermore, 2026 is in the future (current year is 2024), so no real data exists for an 'average' salary yet. Any claim would be speculative, not factual. Voting B ('No') correctly rejects the ill-posed binary framing and acknowledges the impossibility of a definitive answer now. Option A lacks any basis.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Vote: No

The question asks for a specific numerical value—the average base salary of a senior engineer in a future year (2026). Because this requires a quantitative dollar amount rather than a true/false confirmation, answering 'Yes' makes no grammatical or logical sense. Voting 'No' is the most rational choice because it effectively serves as a rejection of the question's flawed format. It acknowledges that we cannot provide a simple affirmative answer to a question seeking unknown, future-based numerical data.

Kimi K2.5

Vote: No

The question asks for a specific quantitative value—the average base salary for senior engineers in New York City for the year 2026. As of today, 2026 has not yet concluded, and comprehensive, verified salary data for that entire year is not yet available. Compensation surveys and market reports for 2026 would typically be published in late 2026 or early 2027 once the year is complete and data is aggregated. Therefore, we cannot currently provide this specific figure or confirm its accuracy, making the answer "No" to the implicit question of whether this information is definitively known or available at this time. Without actual data, any specific number would be a projection rather than a factual average.

Final Summary

The AI Roundtable faced a fundamental logic mismatch when asked to provide a specific dollar amount for a future salary while only being offered 'Yes' or 'No' as options. The models were unanimous in their rejection of the premise, with GPT-5.4 and Sonar Pro immediately pointing out that a quantitative request cannot be satisfied by a binary choice. Claude Opus 4.6 and Grok 4.1 Fast added a layer of temporal realism, noting that even if the options were valid, the average for 2026 is currently unknowable as the year has not yet occurred.

All 6 models agreed on "No" after discussion

Strongest Arguments

• No: The question asks for a specific numerical value that cannot be logically represented by 'Yes' or 'No'; furthermore, since 2026 is in the future, no definitive average salary data currently exists.