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API gateways salary: $203K median

The median advertised API gateways salary is $203K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $186K to $232K: counted from 77 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $98 an hour or $16,917 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $285K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$203Kmedian advertised salary
$186K – $232Kmiddle half of roles
$212Kaverage advertised salary
77roles counted

API gateways salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $211K, 13% more than senior roles ($187K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$187K$174K–$199K30
Lead and above$211K$202K–$232K22
No level in the title$228K$199K–$270K25

API gateways salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸California$211K35
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$210K32
🇺🇸United States$204K74

Skills that pay more for API gateways roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
Observability$232K+$30K8
AI$227K+$24K12
Rust$226K+$24K10
AWS Bedrock$223K+$20K7
LLM$216K+$12K23

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
Crusoe$238K3
Okta$220K4
Kong$217K10
Very Good Security$196K4
Databricks$196K3

Highest-paying open API gateways roles

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Questions about API gateways pay

What is the average API gateways salary?
$212K a year on average and $203K at the median, across 77 open API gateways 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 $186K to $232K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest API gateways pay?
Crusoe ($238K), Okta ($220K), Kong ($217K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is an api gateways a high-paying job?
The median API gateways posting advertises $203K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 17% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as an api gateways?
A tenth of the postings offer $285K a year or more; the highest open API gateways role advertises up to $485K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the API gateways salary per hour and per month?
The median of $203K a year is about $98 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,917 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $89 to $112 an hour.
Which skills pay more for API gateways roles?
Postings that ask for Observability (+$30K, 8 postings), AI (+$24K, 12 postings), Rust (+$24K, 10 postings) advertise more than the $203K median of all API gateways 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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