What is the average Dagster salary?

$212K a year on average and $203K at the median, across 97 open Dagster 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 $243K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.

Which companies advertise the highest Dagster pay?

Scale AI ($243K), Latitude AI ($230K), Prefect ($209K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).

Is a dagster a high-paying job?

The median Dagster posting advertises $203K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 17% above the middle of the market.

How much can you earn as a dagster?

A tenth of the postings offer $310K a year or more; the highest open Dagster role advertises up to $500K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.

What is the Dagster salary per hour and per month?

The median of $203K a year is about $98 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,917 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $76 to $117 an hour.

Which skills pay more for Dagster roles?

Postings that ask for Flink (+$62K, 15 postings), AI agents (+$55K, 10 postings), S3 (+$47K, 10 postings) advertise more than the $203K median of all Dagster 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.

Dagster Salary: $212K Average, $203K Median (Nov 2026)

Dagster salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $242K, 19% more than senior roles ($204K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

Level	Median salary	Middle half	Roles
Senior	$204K	$158K–$224K	31
Lead and above	$242K	$234K–$309K	20
No level in the title	$186K	$152K–$243K	46

Dagster salary by location

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area	$243K	33
🇺🇸California	$238K	42
🇺🇸United States	$209K	81
🇺🇸New York, NY	$204K	27

Skills that pay more for Dagster roles

Skill	Median with it	Above the median	Postings
Flink	$264K	+$62K	15
AI agents	$258K	+$55K	10
S3	$250K	+$47K	10
Terraform	$240K	+$38K	21
Scala	$240K	+$37K	9

Top-paying companies

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
Scale AI	$243K	3
Latitude AI	$230K	3
Prefect	$209K	4
Minerva	$203K	4
Anduril Industries	$194K	9
Span.app	$150K	3
Fortitude Re	$132K	3
Judi Health	$130K	4
Kapitus	$125K	4

Highest-paying open Dagster roles

All Dagster jobs

Software Engineer, Applied AI - SystemsMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $500KTerraformLLMGraphQL6d
Software Engineer, Applied AI - Environments PlatformMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $500KTerraformLLMAirflow7w
VP, Data EngineeringConfido · 🇺🇸NYC Office$350K - $450KLead and aboveSQLAirflowdbt12d
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonTypeScript5mo
Engineering Director, Agentic AI Data PlatformAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$300K - $400KHybridLead and abovePythonSQLPostgreSQL10d
Senior Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure2mo
Analytics EngineerShepherd · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $400KPythonSQLdbt5w
Principal Software Engineer, Creator AnalyticsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLead and aboveGoPythonJava2d
Staff Software Engineer, Data InfrastructurePatreon · Remote$232K - $386KRemoteLead and abovePythonJavaSQL3mo
Data EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$235K - $385KHybridPythonJavaScala38mo
Data Engineer, Core ExperimentationOpenAI · 🇺🇸Seattle$347K - $385KHybridPythonJavaScala5w
Senior Engineering Manager - Scalable Machine LearningLatitude AI · 🇺🇸Dearborn, Michigan, United States, Palo Alto, California…$253K - $380KRemoteSeniorPythonMachine LearningPyTorch5w
Software Engineer - Data InfrastructureFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$153K - $376KGoPythonSQL17mo
Applied Data ResearcherFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$235K - $376KPythonSQLMachine Learning3d
Software Engineer, Trust & SafetySuno · 🇺🇸San Francisco$229K - $364KPythonSQLAirflow5mo
Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureSuno · 🇺🇸Boston$229K - $364KLead and abovePythonTerraformMachine Learning2w
Principal Software Engineer, OrchestrationRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$295K - $345KLead and aboveGoPythonJava3w
Staff Data EngineerDiscord · 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$248K - $310KLead and abovePythonSQLdbt3mo
Data Engineering Manager/Head of DataConfido · 🇺🇸NYC Office$240K - $310KLead and aboveSQLAirflowdbt6w
Senior Sales Engineer (East/Central)Prefect · Remote$233K - $301KRemoteSeniorPythonPostgreSQLGCP7w

Questions about Dagster pay

What is the average Dagster salary?: $212K a year on average and $203K at the median, across 97 open Dagster 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 $243K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest Dagster pay?: Scale AI ($243K), Latitude AI ($230K), Prefect ($209K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a dagster a high-paying job?: The median Dagster posting advertises $203K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 17% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a dagster?: A tenth of the postings offer $310K a year or more; the highest open Dagster role advertises up to $500K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the Dagster salary per hour and per month?: The median of $203K a year is about $98 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,917 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $76 to $117 an hour.
Which skills pay more for Dagster roles?: Postings that ask for Flink (+$62K, 15 postings), AI agents (+$55K, 10 postings), S3 (+$47K, 10 postings) advertise more than the $203K median of all Dagster 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.

Dagster salary: $203K median