Data Center Operations salary: $188K median
From 123 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$188Kmedian advertised salary
$124K – $280Kmiddle half of roles
$204Kaverage advertised salary
123roles counted
Data Center Operations salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $263K, 40% more than senior roles ($188K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $188K | $176K–$242K | 16 |
| Lead and above | $263K | $210K–$362K | 26 |
| No level in title | $140K | $100K–$254K | 81 |
Data Center Operations salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $228K | 45 |
| 🇺🇸California | $228K | 47 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $216K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $188K | 116 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $121K | 18 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 25 |
| OpenAI | $254K | 7 |
| Roblox | $242K | 3 |
| SpaceX | $201K | 6 |
| Cloudflare | $185K | 5 |
| Crusoe | $181K | 8 |
| Lambda | $160K | 12 |
| Armada | $139K | 4 |
| CoreWeave | $134K | 25 |
| ARCO/Murray National Construction | $125K | 5 |
| Lightning AI | $85K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Data Center Operations roles
All data center operations jobs- Data Center Energy LeadAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$405K - $485KRemoteLead
- Staff Mechanical Engineer - Data Center CoolingLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$349K - $465KLeadMachine Learning
- SVP, Data Center Infrastructure BusinessTransgrid Energy · 🇺🇸Houston$350K - $450K
- Data Center Security ArchitectLucidcomputing · 🇺🇸San Francisco$140K - $450K
- Senior Data Center Capacity Delivery ManagerAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$365K - $435KSenior
- Head of Finance - Data CentersOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $385KLead
- Director, Data Center Equipment Category ManagerLambda · 🇺🇸San Jose Office (Zanker)$224K - $350KLeadMachine Learning
- Sr. Regulatory Counsel, Data Center Power & UtilitiesSpaceX · 🇺🇸Hawthorne, CA$235K - $305KSenior
- Datacenter Networking Technician, AI Compute Deployment - StargateOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$157K - $302KPythonLinuxAnsible
- Vice President, Data Center OperationsArmada · Bellevue Office, Sunset Corporate Campus$240K - $300KLead
- Senior Network Engineer - Data Center NetworkingRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$243K - $295KSenior
- Staff Business Systems Engineer, Data Center SystemsCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA$188K - $275KLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Data Center Strategy - EdgeCloudflare · Hybrid$166K - $271KJira
- Senior Network Engineer - Data Center NetworkingRoblox · 🇺🇸Ashburn, Virginia, United States$219K - $266KSenior
- Director, Data Center EngineeringCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Franc…$180K - $264KLead
- Sr. Manager, Supply Chain - Datacenter Compute Infrastructure (Starlink)SpaceX · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$185K - $260KSenior
- Director, Datacenter System ArchitecturePsiQuantum · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California$154K - $258KLeadAirflow
- Head of Data Center Logistics PracticeFlexport · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States$175K - $250KLead
- Technical Product Management Lead, Datacenter Networking & Optical InterconnectPsiQuantum · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California$146K - $245KLead
- Senior Director, Data Center SalesTransgrid Energy · 🇺🇸Houston$235K - $245KLead
Questions about Data Center Operations pay
- What is the average Data Center Operations salary?
- $204K a year on average and $188K at the median, across 123 open Data Center Operations 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 $124K to $280K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Data Center Operations pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), OpenAI ($254K), Roblox ($242K), 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 Data Center Operations roles at tech companies is $188K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $124K to $280K. Counted from 123 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/data-center/
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