BigQuery salary: $190K median
From 266 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$190Kmedian advertised salary
$160K – $236Kmiddle half of roles
$202Kaverage advertised salary
266roles counted
BigQuery salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $248K, 32% more than senior roles ($188K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $188K | $176K–$220K | 90 |
| Lead and above | $248K | $215K–$276K | 71 |
| No level in title | $170K | $148K–$195K | 101 |
BigQuery salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $220K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $210K | 99 |
| 🇺🇸California | $210K | 101 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $193K | 233 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $190K | 47 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 13 |
| Waymo | $300K | 4 |
| ClickHouse | $260K | 8 |
| $244K | 14 | |
| Okta | $235K | 6 |
| Amplitude | $227K | 4 |
| Nuro | $225K | 6 |
| Braze | $218K | 4 |
| Highnote | $215K | 3 |
| Airwallex | $210K | 5 |
| Cloudflare | $195K | 4 |
| Fivetran | $192K | 23 |
| Grafana Labs | $188K | 3 |
| Northbeam | $188K | 9 |
| Samsara | $184K | 9 |
| Oscar Health | $183K | 11 |
| xAI | $182K | 3 |
| Baseten | $182K | 3 |
| Crusoe | $178K | 10 |
| Hopper | $165K | 3 |
| Block | $156K | 3 |
| Sigma | $152K | 16 |
| ZoomInfo | $144K | 3 |
| Scopely | $140K | 3 |
| SupplyHouse.com | $125K | 3 |
Highest-paying open BigQuery roles
All BigQuery jobs- Engineering Manager, Research Data PlatformAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$405K - $850KMachine LearningBigQueryClickHouse
- Principal Engineer Capacity/ComputeAnthropic · 🇺🇸New York City, NY$320K - $485KLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Senior Staff Data EngineerCohere · 🇨🇦Toronto$275K - $450KLeadTerraformAirflowdbt
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Ads ML PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$292K - $410KRemoteLeadMachine LearningKafkaAirflow
- Senior Software EngineerSardine · 🇧🇷Brazil$285K - $400KRemoteSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Software Architect, AI Systems and PlatformOkta · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$274K - $376KPythonTypeScriptReact
- Tech Lead Manager, Data EngineerWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, USA$298K - $368KLeadPythonJavaC++
- Tech Lead, Self Driving Eval InfrastructureWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA$281K - $356KLeadPythonJavaC++
- Senior Director, Analytics & Data ScienceCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$310K - $355KLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Director of Product, Product Led GrowthTemporal · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$209K - $342KRemoteLeadSQLBigQuery
- Engineering ManagerAmplitude · 🇺🇸San Francisco$227K - $341KMachine LearningSnowflakeBigQuery
- Trust EngineerHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $330KPythonSQLGCP
- Sr. Software Engineer, Data Engineering (X)xAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorRustGoPython
- Principal Software Engineer, Applied AIOkta · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$238K - $326KLeadPythonPostgreSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AnalyticsCohere · 🇺🇸United States$250K - $325KLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Director of Data and Analytics, Self Service CloudElastic · 🇺🇸United States$170K - $323KLeadSQLAirflowdbt
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ConsumerReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$230K - $322KRemoteLeadGoPythonMachine Learning
- Staff Software Engineer, RoutingNuro · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California (HQ)$213K - $320KLeadC++PostgreSQLDocker
- Technical Lead Software Engineer, RoutingNuro · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California (HQ)$213K - $320KLeadC++PostgreSQLDocker
- Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic AIAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$182K - $310KLeadPythonSQLGCP
Questions about BigQuery pay
- What is the average BigQuery salary?
- $202K a year on average and $190K at the median, across 266 open BigQuery 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 $160K to $236K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest BigQuery pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), Waymo ($300K), ClickHouse ($260K), 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 BigQuery roles at tech companies is $190K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $160K to $236K. Counted from 266 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/bigquery/
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