Engineering salary: $207K median
From 8,071 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$207Kmedian advertised salary
$165K – $249Kmiddle half of roles
$214Kaverage advertised salary
8,071roles counted
Engineering salary by level
Senior roles advertise a median of $200K, 48% more than junior roles ($135K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | $135K | $102K–$162K | 77 |
| Senior | $200K | $176K–$224K | 2,463 |
| Lead and above | $242K | $216K–$284K | 1,887 |
| No level in title | $185K | $139K–$245K | 3,638 |
Engineering salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $238K | 3,210 |
| 🇺🇸Portland | $226K | 21 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $225K | 1,069 |
| 🇺🇸California | $215K | 4,646 |
| 🇬🇧London & the UK | $215K | 25 |
| 🇪🇺Europe | $212K | 47 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $212K | 122 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $208K | 7,707 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $206K | 99 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $204K | 617 |
| 🇺🇸Pittsburgh | $200K | 78 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $189K | 145 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $187K | 207 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $187K | 89 |
| 🇺🇸Raleigh-Durham | $184K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $184K | 171 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $184K | 223 |
| 🇺🇸San Diego | $181K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸Atlanta | $175K | 47 |
| 🇺🇸Dallas | $172K | 57 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 214 |
| Neko Health | $374K | 4 |
| Nubank | $360K | 3 |
| OpenAI | $330K | 332 |
| Mercor | $330K | 30 |
| Inworld AI | $315K | 3 |
| Perplexity | $312K | 46 |
| Lambda | $310K | 41 |
| River AI Inc. | $310K | 12 |
| Patreon | $309K | 7 |
| Decagon | $300K | 34 |
| Turing | $300K | 12 |
| Goodfire | $300K | 4 |
| Suno | $296K | 24 |
| Sentry | $295K | 19 |
| Wayve | $292K | 45 |
| GoFundMe | $290K | 4 |
| Sierra | $285K | 49 |
| Discord | $279K | 9 |
| Apollo.io | $276K | 5 |
| Unstructured | $275K | 3 |
| $271K | 51 | |
| Harvey | $270K | 96 |
| Asana | $270K | 8 |
| Roblox | $269K | 168 |
Highest-paying open Engineering roles
All Engineering jobs- Head of Forward Deployed EngineeringMesh · 🇺🇸New York, NY$600K - $900KLeadRails
- Head of Off-Chain EngineeringMesh · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$600K - $900KLead
- Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator)Anthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$500K - $850KMachine Learning
- Engineering Manager, Research Data PlatformAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$405K - $850KMachine LearningBigQueryClickHouse
- VP, Sales Engineering NAMNetskope · 🇺🇸United States$444K - $634KLead
- Tech Lead, Applied AI - SearchMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$350K - $600KLeadLLMAI
- Distinguished Software ArchitectWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$500K - $600KComputer Vision
- Sr. Director, Developer GTMCloudflare · Hybrid$434K - $597KLeadSQL
- Senior Director of Engineering, Generative AIRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$526K - $574KLeadMachine LearningLLMAI
- Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization AI/MLOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$381K - $555KMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Engineering Manager, MLEOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$500K - $555KMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads MeasurementPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US$315K - $551KLeadMachine LearningAI
- Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads QualityPinterest · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US$315K - $551KLeadMachine LearningAI
- Senior Director Digital Native, Customer EngineeringCloudflare · Hybrid$326K - $513KLead
- Senior Director of Engineering, Native DataApollo.io · 🇺🇸Hybrid, San Francisco$349K - $502KLeadHubSpot
- Infrastructure Software EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer - Freeway AutonomyZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$340K - $493KLeadC++
- Director, PerceptionZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$410K - $492KLeadMachine LearningCUDAComputer Vision
- Field CTODruva · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, CA$346K - $485KGCPAzureAWS
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $485KRustPythonLLM
Questions about Engineering pay
- What is the average Engineering salary?
- $214K a year on average and $207K at the median, across 8,071 open Engineering 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 $165K to $249K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Engineering pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), Neko Health ($374K), Nubank ($360K), 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 Engineering roles at tech companies is $207K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $249K. Counted from 8,071 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/engineering/
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