EC2 salary: $192K median
The median advertised EC2 salary is $192K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $154K to $230K: counted from 87 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $93 an hour or $16,042 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $269K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll EC2 jobs
$192Kmedian advertised salary
$154K – $230Kmiddle half of roles
$193Kaverage advertised salary
87roles counted
EC2 salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $204K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $198K | 78 |
| 🇺🇸California | $197K | 22 |
Skills that pay more for EC2 roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kafka | $230K | +$38K | 13 |
| Incident response | $230K | +$38K | 21 |
| Datadog | $228K | +$35K | 16 |
| Observability | $228K | +$35K | 18 |
| TypeScript | $222K | +$30K | 18 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Twenty | $324K | 5 |
| Captivation Software | $200K | 9 |
| Anduril Industries | $154K | 4 |
| Judi Health | $114K | 3 |
Highest-paying open EC2 roles
All EC2 jobs- Forward Deployed Data Engineer – TS/SCI (Full Scope Poly)Twenty · 🇺🇸Chantilly, VA$192K - $455KGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - TS/SCI (CI Poly)Twenty · 🇺🇸Fort Meade, MD$192K - $455KLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, PlatformBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$194K - $343KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)Affirm · 🇺🇸Remote US$265K - $325KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Engineering Director, InfrastructureOtter.ai · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$244K - $313KLead and abovePythonTerraformDjango
- Senior Software Engineer - PlatformLoancrate · 🇺🇸United States$170K - $300KRemoteSeniorTypeScriptReactPostgreSQL
- Senior Software Engineer - SecurityLoancrate · 🇺🇸United States$170K - $300KRemoteSeniorPythonTypeScriptReact
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure ComputeRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$243K - $295KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster RecoveryStripe · 🇺🇸Seattle, WA$206K - $286KGoJavaSQL
- Senior Applied AI Enginner, AI PlatformHeadway · Remote$183K - $278KRemoteSeniorPythonTypeScriptReact
- Principal Engineer Team Lead, Simulation InfrastructureMotional · 🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Las Vegas, Nevada…$200K - $275KRemoteLead and abovePythonC++SQL
- Senior Software Engineer, Continuous IntegrationZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$219K - $271KSeniorTerraformKubernetesAWS
- Senior Infrastructure Engineer/SRECresta · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$205K - $270KRemoteSeniorGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Engineer 1 - C++/Marian/Java/AWS/PyTorch/PythonCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KPythonJavaScriptJava
- DevOps Engineer - AWS/Ansible/Linux/PythonCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸San Antonio, TX$130K - $270KPythonJavaPostgreSQL
- Staff Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureAirbnb · 🇺🇸Remote, USA$212K - $265KRemoteLead and aboveDockerGCPAzure
- Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureBenchling · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$195K - $265KHybridGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Software Engineer, CV UXHinge Health · 🇺🇸San Francisco-HQ$198K - $264KHybridLead and aboveTypeScriptReactNode.js
- Staff Software EngineerParachute Health · 🇺🇸U.S. Remote$200K - $260KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonJavaScript
Questions about EC2 pay
- What is the average EC2 salary?
- $193K a year on average and $192K at the median, across 87 open EC2 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 $154K to $230K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest EC2 pay?
- Twenty ($324K), Captivation Software ($200K), Anduril Industries ($154K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is an ec2 a high-paying job?
- The median EC2 posting advertises $192K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 11% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as an ec2?
- A tenth of the postings offer $269K a year or more; the highest open EC2 role advertises up to $455K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the EC2 salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $192K a year is about $93 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,042 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $74 to $111 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for EC2 roles?
- Postings that ask for Kafka (+$38K, 13 postings), Incident response (+$38K, 21 postings), Datadog (+$35K, 16 postings) advertise more than the $192K median of all EC2 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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The median advertised salary for EC2 roles at companies is $192K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $154K to $230K. Counted from 87 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/ec2/
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