AWS salary: $208K median
From 2,182 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$208Kmedian advertised salary
$175K – $238Kmiddle half of roles
$212Kaverage advertised salary
2,182roles counted
AWS salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $232K, 19% more than senior roles ($196K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $196K | $176K–$216K | 777 |
| Lead and above | $232K | $214K–$265K | 589 |
| No level in title | $194K | $154K–$232K | 807 |
AWS salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 792 |
| 🇺🇸California | $216K | 934 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $216K | 148 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $215K | 403 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $212K | 90 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $210K | 2,050 |
| 🇪🇺Europe | $205K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $197K | 64 |
| 🇺🇸Atlanta | $191K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸Florida | $188K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸Pittsburgh | $188K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $187K | 69 |
| 🇺🇸Dallas | $187K | 30 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $187K | 94 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $187K | 69 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $184K | 65 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $172K | 39 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $170K | 27 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 50 |
| OpenAI | $356K | 23 |
| Mercor | $330K | 6 |
| Patreon | $322K | 3 |
| Perplexity | $312K | 18 |
| Suno | $304K | 8 |
| Decagon | $300K | 4 |
| Sentry | $295K | 5 |
| Sierra | $290K | 8 |
| Replit | $288K | 3 |
| Roblox | $288K | 10 |
| Lambda | $286K | 8 |
| Figure | $275K | 3 |
| Faire | $274K | 3 |
| $271K | 4 | |
| Ripple | $261K | 7 |
| Affirm | $260K | 25 |
| Attentive | $260K | 3 |
| Snorkel AI | $260K | 6 |
| Figma | $258K | 8 |
| Block | $256K | 18 |
| Ramp | $255K | 10 |
| CodeRabbit | $254K | 8 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| Cohere | $252K | 7 |
Highest-paying open AWS roles
All AWS jobs- Research Engineer, DiscoveryAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$350K - $850KDockerGCPPyTorch
- Manager, Enterprise Sales - Asset & Wealth ManagementAnthropic · 🇺🇸New York City, NY$450K - $700KGCPMachine LearningLLM
- Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸US - Remote$401K - $510KRemoteLeadAzureCI/CDKubernetes
- Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸US - Remote$401K - $510KRemoteLeadGCPAzureCI/CD
- Principal Engineer, Big Data PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$243K - $500KRemoteLeadGoPythonJava
- Infrastructure Software EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, AnonymizationMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$180K - $500KSeniorPythonPostgreSQLMachine Learning
- Field CTODruva · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, CA$346K - $485KGCPAzureAWS
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $485KRustGoC++
- VP & GM, Public SectorMongoDB · 🇺🇸Washington DC$200K - $450KLeadGCPAzureAWS
- Director of Engineering, Cloud PlatformAttentive · 🇺🇸New York, NY (Hybrid)$286K - $428KLeadSnowflakeAWS
- VP, Success & ServicesVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$318K - $426KRemoteLeadGCPAzureJira
- Director of Platform EngineeringPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$340K - $425KLeadGCPAWS
- SVP, Revenue MarketingMongoDB · 🇺🇸United States$213K - $419KGCPAzureAWS
- Forward Deployed Engineer, InferenceCohere · 🇺🇸United States$240K - $415KGoPythonC++
- Senior Director, Global SME Solutions ArchitectureGitLab · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$244K - $410KRemoteLeadGCPAzureLLM
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$292K - $410KRemoteLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Monetization)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KPythonTypeScriptReact
- Lakebase Associate Director- Financial ServicesDatabricks · 🇺🇸United States$292K - $402KLeadPostgreSQLGCPAzure
- Lakebase Associate Director, Healthcare & Life SciencesDatabricks · 🇺🇸Central - United States; Northeast - United States; South…$292K - $402KLeadPostgreSQLGCPAzure
Questions about AWS pay
- What is the average AWS salary?
- $212K a year on average and $208K at the median, across 2,182 open AWS postings at tech 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 $175K to $238K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest AWS pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), OpenAI ($356K), Mercor ($330K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- 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 AWS roles at tech companies is $208K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $175K to $238K. Counted from 2,182 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/aws/
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