CrowdStrike salary: $181K median
The median advertised CrowdStrike salary is $181K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $154K to $204K: counted from 81 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $87 an hour or $15,083 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $238K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll CrowdStrike jobs
$181Kmedian advertised salary
$154K – $204Kmiddle half of roles
$181Kaverage advertised salary
81roles counted
CrowdStrike salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $191K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸California | $186K | 24 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $181K | 69 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $180K | 22 |
Skills that pay more for CrowdStrike roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | $200K | +$19K | 10 |
| Kubernetes | $194K | +$13K | 16 |
| Threat modeling | $192K | +$11K | 11 |
| Terraform | $192K | +$11K | 19 |
| Infrastructure as code | $192K | +$11K | 19 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Braze | $192K | 10 |
| Artemis | $180K | 13 |
| Corelight | $160K | 10 |
| Apex Technology | $124K | 3 |
Highest-paying open CrowdStrike roles
All CrowdStrike jobs- Senior Account Executive (Enterprise)Artemis · Remote$320K - $360KRemoteSeniorMachine LearningHubSpotAWS
- Account Executive, Federal (4th Estate/DOW)Corelight · North America$280K - $320KSIEMEDRCrowdStrike
- Enterprise Account Executive - DallasCorelight · North America$280K - $320KCrowdStrikePipeline managementSolution selling
- Senior Manager, IT OperationsSuno · 🇺🇸San Francisco$225K - $295KSeniorGoogle WorkspaceHelp deskJamf
- Manager, Engineering (Business Technology)Garner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$239K - $292KmacOSOktaCrowdStrike
- SecOps DeveloperTextNow, Inc. · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$136K - $274KTerraformCI/CDAWS
- Staff Corporate Security EngineerAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$175K - $270KHybridLead and abovePythonGCPBash
- Principal Client Platform EngineerRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$231K - $267KLead and aboveGoPythonRuby
- Principal Endpoint Platform EngineerRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$231K - $267KLead and aboveGoPythonRuby
- Staff Engineer, Detection and ResponseApollo.io · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$184K - $264KRemoteLead and abovePythonDockerTerraform
- Staff Engineer, Security OperationsApollo.io · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$184K - $264KRemoteLead and abovePythonDockerTerraform
- Principal Solutions EngineerTwingate · Remote$215K - $260KRemoteLead and abovePythonGraphQLKubernetes
- Detection & CorpSec Engineer (Remote)Quora · Remote - Multiple Locations$172K - $250KRemotePythonAWSNetwork engineering
- Senior Software EngineerArtemis · 🇺🇸New York City$180K - $250KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Security Engineer, Vulnerability ManagementCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$165K - $242KSeniorRustGoPython
- Senior Security Engineer IIBraze · 🇺🇸Chicago$149K - $235KSeniorPythonTerraformGCP
- Senior Security Engineer IIBraze · 🇺🇸New York City$149K - $235KSeniorPythonTerraformGCP
- Manager Security Engineer, OperationsFivetran · 🇺🇸Remote, Massachusetts, United States, AMER$187K - $233KRemoteGCPAzureLLM
- Manager Security Engineer, OperationsFivetran · 🇺🇸Remote, New York, United States, AMER$187K - $233KRemoteGCPAzureLLM
- Sr. Security Engineer, Enterprise SecurityDatabricks · 🇺🇸Remote - California$134K - $231KRemoteSeniorGoPythonTerraform
Questions about CrowdStrike pay
- What is the average CrowdStrike salary?
- $181K a year on average and $181K at the median, across 81 open CrowdStrike 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 $154K to $204K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest CrowdStrike pay?
- Braze ($192K), Artemis ($180K), Corelight ($160K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a crowdstrike a high-paying job?
- The median CrowdStrike posting advertises $181K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 4% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a crowdstrike?
- A tenth of the postings offer $238K a year or more; the highest open CrowdStrike role advertises up to $360K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the CrowdStrike salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $181K a year is about $87 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,083 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $74 to $98 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for CrowdStrike roles?
- Postings that ask for Go (+$19K, 10 postings), Kubernetes (+$13K, 16 postings), Threat modeling (+$11K, 11 postings) advertise more than the $181K median of all CrowdStrike 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 CrowdStrike roles at companies is $181K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $154K to $204K. Counted from 81 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/crowdstrike/
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