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CSS salary: $195K median

The median advertised CSS salary is $195K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $153K to $226K: counted from 250 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $94 an hour or $16,271 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $269K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$195Kmedian advertised salary
$153K – $226Kmiddle half of roles
$193Kaverage advertised salary
250roles counted

CSS salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $216K, 10% more than senior roles ($196K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$196K$158K–$224K90
Lead and above$216K$194K–$264K54
No level in the title$180K$132K–$215K104

CSS salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸New York, NY$215K48
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$212K79
🇺🇸California$210K98
🇺🇸United States$196K235
🇺🇸Seattle, WA$195K17

Skills that pay more for CSS roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
AI agents$218K+$22K26
Tailwind CSS$212K+$17K39
PostgreSQL$210K+$15K40
Design systems$210K+$15K79
TypeScript$208K+$12K115

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
Anthropic$382K3
Harvey$279K10
Perplexity$276K4
Brex$270K5
Twenty$267K4
Replit$260K3
Vercel$245K3
Anduril Industries$239K4
McMaster-Carr$216K3
Plaid$210K7
Databricks$209K8
CodeRabbit$206K4
Reddit$197K3
Hims & Hers$195K4
Huntress$194K4
Siftstack$192K8
Alloy$192K4
Otter.ai$189K4
SpaceX$155K10
iCapital$120K4

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Questions about CSS pay

What is the average CSS salary?
$193K a year on average and $195K at the median, across 250 open CSS 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 $153K to $226K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest CSS pay?
Anthropic ($382K), Harvey ($279K), Perplexity ($276K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a css a high-paying job?
The median CSS posting advertises $195K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 12% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a css?
A tenth of the postings offer $269K a year or more; the highest open CSS role advertises up to $460K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the CSS salary per hour and per month?
The median of $195K a year is about $94 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,271 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $74 to $109 an hour.
Which skills pay more for CSS roles?
Postings that ask for AI agents (+$22K, 26 postings), Tailwind CSS (+$17K, 39 postings), PostgreSQL (+$15K, 40 postings) advertise more than the $195K median of all CSS 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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