Cybersecurity salary: $212K median
From 450 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$212Kmedian advertised salary
$175K – $256Kmiddle half of roles
$224Kaverage advertised salary
450roles counted
Cybersecurity salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $250K, 27% more than senior roles ($198K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $198K | $175K–$218K | 148 |
| Lead and above | $250K | $222K–$286K | 119 |
| No level in title | $200K | $149K–$260K | 183 |
Cybersecurity salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $245K | 172 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $235K | 35 |
| 🇺🇸California | $226K | 220 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $225K | 86 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $216K | 63 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $212K | 432 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $145K | 26 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 26 |
| OpenAI | $354K | 30 |
| Lambda | $330K | 6 |
| Suno | $320K | 5 |
| Roblox | $288K | 5 |
| Harvey | $280K | 8 |
| Ripple | $262K | 6 |
| Vercel | $260K | 3 |
| Block | $256K | 4 |
| Crusoe | $252K | 4 |
| Figure | $238K | 4 |
| Pure Storage | $228K | 3 |
| Apollo.io | $228K | 4 |
| Wiz | $225K | 3 |
| Typeface | $225K | 3 |
| Zoox | $218K | 3 |
| Rubrik | $218K | 3 |
| Dropbox | $217K | 3 |
| Brex | $216K | 3 |
| Huntress | $215K | 3 |
| Airwallex | $214K | 4 |
| Databricks | $212K | 4 |
| True Anomaly | $210K | 9 |
| Muon Space | $206K | 4 |
| CoreWeave | $204K | 13 |
Highest-paying open Cybersecurity roles
All cybersecurity jobs- Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RLAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$500K - $850KMachine LearningLLM
- Technical Threat Investigator, Threat Intel EngineeringOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $510KRemote
- Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸US - Remote$401K - $510KRemoteLeadAzureCI/CDKubernetes
- Staff+ Application Security EngineerAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$320K - $485KRemoteLeadRustGoPython
- Senior Manager, Detection and ResponseLambda · Bellevue Office$324K - $480KSeniorMachine LearningLLM
- Principal Security EngineerBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$319K - $479KLead
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Security Lead, Product and Infrastructure (InfoSec)River AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KLead
- Sr. Staff Threat Intelligence EngineerSuno · 🇺🇸Boston$316K - $415KLeadPythonSQL
- Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonGCP
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Security EngineerSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KLLMCI/CD
- Director of Detection and ResponseHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$280K - $385KLead
- Director of Detection and ResponseHarvey · 🇺🇸New York$280K - $385KLead
- Principal Network Security EngineerRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$326K - $385KLeadGoC++
- Security EngineerFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$153K - $376K
- Principal Security Engineer, Enterprise SecurityRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$321K - $366KLeadPython
- Staff Security Software Engineer, Detection & ResponsePinterest · 🇺🇸Seattle, WA, US; Remote, US$177K - $365KRemoteLeadGoPythonRuby
- Staff Software Engineer, Detection & ResponseSuno · 🇺🇸Boston$277K - $364KLeadAWS
- Security Engineer - Incident ResponseReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$230K - $360KGoPythonGCP
Questions about Cybersecurity pay
- What is the average Cybersecurity salary?
- $224K a year on average and $212K at the median, across 450 open Cybersecurity 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 $175K to $256K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Cybersecurity pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), OpenAI ($354K), Lambda ($330K), 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 Cybersecurity roles at tech companies is $212K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $175K to $256K. Counted from 450 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/cybersecurity/
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