Active Directory salary: $150K median
The median advertised Active Directory salary is $150K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $117K to $193K: counted from 229 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $72 an hour or $12,500 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $238K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Active Directory jobs
$150Kmedian advertised salary
$117K – $193Kmiddle half of roles
$161Kaverage advertised salary
229roles counted
Active Directory salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $206K, 21% more than senior roles ($171K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $171K | $138K–$192K | 78 |
| Lead and above | $206K | $148K–$249K | 29 |
| No level in the title | $142K | $108K–$178K | 120 |
Active Directory salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $185K | 47 |
| 🇺🇸California | $175K | 93 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $152K | 213 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $150K | 34 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $140K | 19 |
Skills that pay more for Active Directory roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zero trust | $212K | +$62K | 33 |
| Go | $193K | +$43K | 24 |
| SSO | $188K | +$38K | 77 |
| SIEM | $184K | +$34K | 26 |
| Okta | $180K | +$30K | 58 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Axonius | $290K | 3 |
| Zoox | $252K | 4 |
| Netskope | $232K | 7 |
| Okta | $214K | 4 |
| Muon Space | $206K | 3 |
| MongoDB | $204K | 3 |
| Hermeus | $182K | 3 |
| Apex Technology | $180K | 5 |
| Anduril Industries | $172K | 17 |
| Artemis | $170K | 5 |
| Crusoe | $169K | 4 |
| Rubrik | $162K | 4 |
| Collibra | $158K | 3 |
| xAI | $149K | 5 |
| Applied | $145K | 5 |
| Charles River Associates | $140K | 7 |
| SpaceX | $116K | 6 |
| Delaware Nation Industries | $112K | 3 |
| Rocket Lab | $108K | 4 |
| True Anomaly | $102K | 3 |
| Coretelligent | $94K | 6 |
Highest-paying open Active Directory roles
All Active Directory jobs- Field CTODruva · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, CA$346K - $485KGCPAzureAWS
- EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$287K - $485KHybridPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Senior Security Engineer - Enterprise SecurityLambda · Bellevue Office$266K - $395KHybridSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Strategic Account Executive, SoutheastAxonius · 🇺🇸Remote US$330K - $350KRemoteActive DirectorySIEMFirewalls
- Principal Forward Deployed EngineerDocker · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$198K - $319KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Enterprise Account Executive, Ohio/MichiganAxonius · 🇺🇸Remote US$275K - $305KRemoteActive DirectoryVulnerability managementSIEM
- Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access ManagementReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$217K - $304KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Product Manager - Okta Identity GovernanceOkta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New Yo…$196K - $301KLead and aboveMachine LearningAgileActive Directory
- Lead AI Engineer – Enterprise, Data & AIZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$230K - $300KLead and abovePythonLLMMongoDB
- Software Engineer, BackendVercel · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City$196K - $294KHybridTypeScriptJavaScriptReact
- Solutions EngineerNetskope · 🇺🇸Texas, United States$185K - $293KPythonGCPAzure
- Staff CIAM Software EngineerAffirm · 🇺🇸Remote US$230K - $290KRemoteLead and abovePythonKotlinTerraform
- Sr. Sales EngineerNetskope · 🇺🇸California, United States$178K - $290KSeniorPythonGCPAzure
- Software Engineer, Identity PlatformOpenrouter · 🇺🇸Remote (US)$215K - $285KRemoteTypeScriptSQLPostgreSQL
- Sr Staff Software Engineer, Stream IntegrationsCribl · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$230K - $280KRemoteLead and aboveTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.js
- Lead Data Platform Engineer - Enterprise, Data & AIZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$230K - $277KLead and aboveTerraformLLMCI/CD
- Staff Software Engineer, Konnect Core PlatformKong · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States$150K - $275KRemoteLead and aboveObservabilityIstioJaeger
- Head of Identity & Access ManagementApplied · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale$230K - $275KLead and aboveGCPAzureAWS
- Manager, Client Platform EngineeringMongoDB · 🇺🇸Palo Alto; San Francisco$137K - $270KPythonSwiftGCP
Questions about Active Directory pay
- What is the average Active Directory salary?
- $161K a year on average and $150K at the median, across 229 open Active Directory postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $117K to $193K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Active Directory pay?
- Axonius ($290K), Zoox ($252K), Netskope ($232K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is an active directory a high-paying job?
- The median Active Directory posting advertises $150K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 14% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as an active directory?
- A tenth of the postings offer $238K a year or more; the highest open Active Directory role advertises up to $485K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Active Directory salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $150K a year is about $72 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $12,500 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $56 to $93 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Active Directory roles?
- Postings that ask for Zero trust (+$62K, 33 postings), Go (+$43K, 24 postings), SSO (+$38K, 77 postings) advertise more than the $150K median of all Active Directory postings with pay.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Active Directory roles at companies is $150K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $117K to $193K. Counted from 229 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/active-directory/
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