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ECS salary: $200K median

The median advertised ECS salary is $200K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $245K: counted from 105 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $96 an hour or $16,667 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $298K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$200Kmedian advertised salary
$165K – $245Kmiddle half of roles
$209Kaverage advertised salary
105roles counted

ECS salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $232K, 16% more than senior roles ($200K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$200K$180K–$230K36
Lead and above$232K$214K–$298K23
No level in the title$170K$148K–$250K46

ECS salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸New York, NY$211K20
🇺🇸United States$206K83
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$170K21
🇺🇸California$170K24

Skills that pay more for ECS roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
PagerDuty$270K+$70K14
Sentry$250K+$50K10
SAST/DAST$250K+$50K10
Reconciliations$250K+$50K12
FastAPI$250K+$50K11

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
Twenty$324K5
Runway Ml$265K3
Headway$250K10
Loancrate$235K4
Parachute Health$230K3
Bubble$229K3
Judi Health$158K3
Twitch$148K6

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Questions about ECS pay

What is the average ECS salary?
$209K a year on average and $200K at the median, across 105 open ECS 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 $165K to $245K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest ECS pay?
Twenty ($324K), Runway Ml ($265K), Headway ($250K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is an ecs a high-paying job?
The median ECS posting advertises $200K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 15% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as an ecs?
A tenth of the postings offer $298K a year or more; the highest open ECS role advertises up to $500K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the ECS salary per hour and per month?
The median of $200K a year is about $96 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,667 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $79 to $118 an hour.
Which skills pay more for ECS roles?
Postings that ask for PagerDuty (+$70K, 14 postings), Sentry (+$50K, 10 postings), SAST/DAST (+$50K, 10 postings) advertise more than the $200K median of all ECS 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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