CircleCI salary: $211K median
The median advertised CircleCI salary is $211K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $175K to $243K: counted from 66 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $101 an hour or $17,583 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $260K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll CircleCI jobs
$211Kmedian advertised salary
$175K – $243Kmiddle half of roles
$209Kaverage advertised salary
66roles counted
CircleCI salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $246K, 16% more than senior roles ($211K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $211K | $180K–$222K | 26 |
| Lead and above | $246K | $210K–$260K | 18 |
| No level in the title | $184K | $150K–$243K | 22 |
CircleCI salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸California | $240K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $216K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $211K | 64 |
Skills that pay more for CircleCI roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | $248K | +$38K | 8 |
| LLM | $245K | +$34K | 8 |
| MySQL | $243K | +$32K | 9 |
| Kafka | $243K | +$32K | 11 |
| Elasticsearch | $243K | +$32K | 9 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Scale AI | $284K | 3 |
| Hims & Hers | $235K | 6 |
| Justworks | $229K | 8 |
| Anduril Industries | $192K | 16 |
| Okta | $180K | 3 |
Highest-paying open CircleCI roles
All CircleCI jobs- Senior/Staff DevOps EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸New York, NY$192K - $455KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Senior/Staff DevOps EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$192K - $455KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Cloud Platform EngineerBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridTerraformMachine LearningLLM
- Engineering Manager, Cloud PlatformBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridTerraformMachine LearningCI/CD
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer ToolingScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$252K - $315KLead and aboveNode.jsDockerTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer, Data PlatformScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$252K - $315KLead and abovePostgreSQLLLMSnowflake
- Senior Estimation and Tracking EngineerAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Irvine, California, United States$220K - $292KSeniorRustC++Docker
- Principal Software Engineer, AI Tooling & AdoptionFivetran · 🇺🇸Oakland, California, United States, AMER$226K - $282KLead and abovePythonReactJava
- Engineering Manager, Governance IntelligenceOkta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; San Francisco, California$204K - $281KPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Sr. Staff Engineer (Backend)Hims & Hers · 🇺🇸US - Remote$240K - $280KRemoteLead and aboveGoJavaKotlin
- Sr. Staff Engineer (Fullstack/Backend)Hims & Hers · 🇺🇸US - Remote$240K - $280KRemoteLead and aboveGoJavaKotlin
- Tech Lead Manager, PlatformChime · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, USA$199K - $275KLead and aboveGoPythonRuby
- Engineering Manager, BenefitsJustworks · 🇺🇸New York, New York$212K - $274KGoJavaScriptRuby
- Engineering Manager, Growth ExpansionJustworks · 🇺🇸New York, New York$212K - $274KGoJavaScriptRuby
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer ProductivityIronclad · 🇺🇸San Francisco$245K - $270KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Security EngineerJellyfish · 🇺🇸United States$185K - $270KRemoteLead and aboveRustPythonTypeScript
- Senior Software Engineer, AI PlatformAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Washington, District of Columbia, United States$191K - $254KSeniorRustPythonC++
- Senior Software Engineer, Automation & Developer ToolsEverlaw · 🇺🇸Oakland, California, United States$173K - $251KSeniorRustGoPython
- Staff/Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform EngineeringHarness · 🇺🇸U.S. (Remote)$200K - $250KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Senior Software Engineer, PlatformAstronomer · 🇺🇸New York City$210K - $250KHybridSeniorGoPythonGCP
Questions about CircleCI pay
- What is the average CircleCI salary?
- $209K a year on average and $211K at the median, across 66 open CircleCI 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 $175K to $243K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest CircleCI pay?
- Scale AI ($284K), Hims & Hers ($235K), Justworks ($229K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a circleci a high-paying job?
- The median CircleCI posting advertises $211K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 21% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a circleci?
- A tenth of the postings offer $260K a year or more; the highest open CircleCI role advertises up to $455K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the CircleCI salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $211K a year is about $101 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,583 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $84 to $117 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for CircleCI roles?
- Postings that ask for PostgreSQL (+$38K, 8 postings), LLM (+$34K, 8 postings), MySQL (+$32K, 9 postings) advertise more than the $211K median of all CircleCI 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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The median advertised salary for CircleCI roles at companies is $211K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $175K to $243K. Counted from 66 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/circleci/
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