Azure salary: $202K median
From 1,344 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$202Kmedian advertised salary
$171K – $232Kmiddle half of roles
$207Kaverage advertised salary
1,344roles counted
Azure salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $230K, 19% more than senior roles ($192K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $192K | $174K–$216K | 465 |
| Lead and above | $230K | $208K–$268K | 356 |
| No level in title | $192K | $150K–$218K | 518 |
Azure salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 449 |
| 🇺🇸California | $214K | 547 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $214K | 97 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $209K | 253 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $202K | 1,286 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $202K | 47 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $202K | 63 |
| 🇺🇸Florida | $188K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸Dallas | $187K | 25 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $187K | 81 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $187K | 55 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $187K | 46 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $185K | 62 |
| 🇺🇸Atlanta | $175K | 29 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $174K | 21 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 29 |
| OpenAI | $356K | 27 |
| Sierra | $290K | 4 |
| Replit | $288K | 3 |
| Harvey | $264K | 24 |
| Ripple | $260K | 8 |
| Docker | $258K | 10 |
| Cohere | $255K | 6 |
| Ramp | $251K | 5 |
| Astronomer | $248K | 4 |
| Scale AI | $243K | 27 |
| Maven Clinic | $242K | 5 |
| Anyscale | $240K | 17 |
| Together AI | $238K | 8 |
| Cresta | $238K | 3 |
| Cloudflare | $234K | 11 |
| Vercel | $233K | 4 |
| Netskope | $232K | 11 |
| CodeRabbit | $231K | 4 |
| Ironclad | $229K | 3 |
| Freenome | $229K | 7 |
| Vanta | $228K | 4 |
| Figure | $225K | 3 |
| Typeface | $225K | 7 |
| Motional | $223K | 4 |
Highest-paying open Azure roles
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- Principal Engineer Capacity/ComputeAnthropic · 🇺🇸New York City, NY$320K - $485KLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Principal Engineer Capacity/ComputeAnthropic · 🇺🇸Seattle, WA$320K - $485KLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Field CTODruva · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, CA$346K - $485KGCPAzureAWS
- Principal Engineer - PlatformNeko Health · 🇺🇸New York$405K - $480KLeadAzure
- Director, Software Engineering (Platform)Neko Health · 🇺🇸New York$405K - $480KLeadDockerAzure
- VP & GM, Public SectorMongoDB · 🇺🇸Washington DC$200K - $450KLeadGCPAzureAWS
- VP, Success & ServicesVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$318K - $426KRemoteLeadGCPAzureJira
- 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
- Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonGCP
- Lakebase Associate Director- Financial ServicesDatabricks · 🇺🇸United States$292K - $402KLeadPostgreSQLGCPAzure
- Lakebase Associate Director, Healthcare & Life SciencesDatabricks · 🇺🇸Central - United States; Northeast - United States; South…$292K - $402KLeadPostgreSQLGCPAzure
- Regional VP, SouthwestClickHouse · 🇺🇸Denver$350K - $400KRemoteLeadGCPAzureLLM
- Regional VP, SoutheastClickHouse · 🇺🇸Atlanta$350K - $400KRemoteLeadGCPAzureLLM
- Enterprise Account Executive, Capital MarketsCrusoe · 🇺🇸New York, NY - US$300K - $400KGCPAzureAWS
- Enterprise Account Executive, AI LabsCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$300K - $400KGCPAzureAWS
- Senior Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
Questions about Azure pay
- What is the average Azure salary?
- $207K a year on average and $202K at the median, across 1,344 open Azure 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 $171K to $232K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Azure pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), OpenAI ($356K), Sierra ($290K), 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 Azure roles at tech companies is $202K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $171K to $232K. Counted from 1,344 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/azure/
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