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CDN salary: $207K median

The median advertised CDN salary is $207K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $158K to $260K: counted from 126 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $99 an hour or $17,229 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $279K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$207Kmedian advertised salary
$158K – $260Kmiddle half of roles
$210Kaverage advertised salary
126roles counted

CDN salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $232K, 8% more than senior roles ($216K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$216K$168K–$262K50
Lead and above$232K$197K–$271K39
No level in the title$160K$132K–$215K37

CDN salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸California$200K55
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$200K52
🇺🇸United States$199K101
🇺🇸Denver, CO$192K26
🇺🇸New York, NY$172K31

Skills that pay more for CDN roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
Zero trust$262K+$56K17
TCP/IP$262K+$56K15
SOC 2$262K+$56K15
SD-WAN$262K+$56K14
RAG$262K+$56K13

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
Cloudflare$262K19
Reddit$260K6
Vercel$245K3
SpaceX$228K10
Fastly$199K37
Contentful$132K10
Braze$101K4

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Questions about CDN pay

What is the average CDN salary?
$210K a year on average and $207K at the median, across 126 open CDN 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 $158K to $260K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest CDN pay?
Cloudflare ($262K), Reddit ($260K), Vercel ($245K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a cdn a high-paying job?
The median CDN posting advertises $207K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 19% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a cdn?
A tenth of the postings offer $279K a year or more; the highest open CDN role advertises up to $500K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the CDN salary per hour and per month?
The median of $207K a year is about $99 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,229 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $76 to $125 an hour.
Which skills pay more for CDN roles?
Postings that ask for Zero trust (+$56K, 17 postings), TCP/IP (+$56K, 15 postings), SOC 2 (+$56K, 15 postings) advertise more than the $207K median of all CDN 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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