dbt salary: $196K median
From 390 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$196Kmedian advertised salary
$170K – $236Kmiddle half of roles
$204Kaverage advertised salary
390roles counted
dbt salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $240K, 26% more than senior roles ($190K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $190K | $166K–$205K | 149 |
| Lead and above | $240K | $207K–$269K | 109 |
| No level in title | $179K | $145K–$212K | 131 |
dbt salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 134 |
| 🇺🇸California | $220K | 145 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $202K | 96 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $200K | 358 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $184K | 24 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $184K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $182K | 24 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $348K | 8 |
| Perplexity | $252K | 7 |
| Instacart | $250K | 3 |
| Figma | $244K | 4 |
| Scale AI | $243K | 5 |
| Faire | $233K | 3 |
| Elastic | $232K | 3 |
| Airwallex | $230K | 5 |
| Monte Carlo | $230K | 3 |
| ClickHouse | $226K | 4 |
| Block | $222K | 6 |
| Ramp | $217K | 5 |
| Plaid | $215K | 5 |
| Mercury | $206K | 4 |
| Flex | $204K | 3 |
| Taskrabbit | $202K | 3 |
| Braze | $202K | 4 |
| Mixpanel | $200K | 3 |
| Fivetran | $196K | 121 |
| Virta Health | $194K | 4 |
| Deepgram | $192K | 3 |
| Justworks | $190K | 4 |
| Oscar Health | $190K | 3 |
| Garner Health | $188K | 9 |
| Oura | $188K | 5 |
Highest-paying open dbt roles
All dbt jobs- Staff+ Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$405K - $485KRemoteLeadGoPythonJava
- Senior Staff Data EngineerCohere · 🇨🇦Toronto$275K - $450KLeadTerraformAirflowdbt
- Regional DirectorFivetran · 🇺🇸Remote, Illinois, United States, AMER; Remote, Indiana, U…$180K - $450KRemoteLeaddbt
- Applied Data Scientist, Personalization & Machine LearningOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Regional DirectorFivetran · 🇺🇸Remote, Washington, United States, AMER$178K - $444KRemoteLeaddbt
- Data Engineer, Billing & PaymentsAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$320K - $405KPythonSQLAirflow
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Data Platform)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonTypeScript
- Engineering Director, Agentic AI Data PlatformAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$300K - $400KLeadPythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Senior Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- Analytics EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $400KPythonSQLdbt
- Manager, Engineering (Data Platform)Garner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$310K - $385KPythonTerraformKafka
- Software Engineer - Data InfrastructureFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$153K - $376KGoPythonSQL
- Applied Data ResearcherFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$235K - $376KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Data EngineeringPinterest · 🇺🇸New York, NY, US; Remote, US$177K - $365KRemoteLeadPythonSQLdbt
- Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureSuno · 🇺🇸Boston$229K - $364KLeadPythonTerraformMachine Learning
- Staff Data Engineer, Advanced Insights & ModelingBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$240K - $359KLeadPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Software EngineerGarner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$312K - $356KLeadGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Director, Analytics & Data ScienceCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$310K - $355KLeadPythonSQLGCP
- Senior Staff Data Engineer - Data & ML PlatformHinge Health · 🇺🇸San Francisco-HQ$240K - $335KLeadPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$175K - $330KLeadPythonSQLLLM
Questions about dbt pay
- What is the average dbt salary?
- $204K a year on average and $196K at the median, across 390 open dbt 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 $170K to $236K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest dbt pay?
- Anthropic ($348K), Perplexity ($252K), Instacart ($250K), 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 dbt roles at tech companies is $196K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $170K to $236K. Counted from 390 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/dbt/
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