FedRAMP salary: $198K median
The median advertised FedRAMP salary is $198K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $162K to $245K: counted from 367 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $95 an hour or $16,500 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $308K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll FedRAMP jobs
$198Kmedian advertised salary
$162K – $245Kmiddle half of roles
$212Kaverage advertised salary
367roles counted
FedRAMP salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $232K, 24% more than senior roles ($187K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $187K | $166K–$212K | 103 |
| Lead and above | $232K | $202K–$276K | 109 |
| No level in the title | $181K | $146K–$234K | 154 |
FedRAMP salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $235K | 82 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $230K | 19 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $212K | 39 |
| 🇺🇸California | $212K | 149 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $200K | 339 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $200K | 71 |
| 🇺🇸Denver, CO | $186K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $170K | 27 |
Skills that pay more for FedRAMP roles
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 13 |
| Lambda | $330K | 6 |
| Replit | $295K | 3 |
| Harvey | $286K | 3 |
| Sierra | $285K | 8 |
| Vanta | $283K | 5 |
| Snorkel AI | $261K | 4 |
| Figma | $251K | 3 |
| LangChain | $242K | 3 |
| Rubrik | $236K | 5 |
| OpenAI | $231K | 6 |
| LaunchDarkly | $228K | 3 |
| Ramp | $223K | 4 |
| Skydio | $220K | 5 |
| Deepgram | $212K | 5 |
| Okta | $206K | 11 |
| Samsara | $203K | 16 |
| GitLab | $200K | 6 |
| Scale AI | $198K | 5 |
| Anduril Industries | $198K | 16 |
| Databricks | $197K | 10 |
| Wiz | $193K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $192K | 6 |
| Cursor | $188K | 3 |
| Cloudflare | $186K | 5 |
Highest-paying open FedRAMP roles
All FedRAMP jobs- Head of National Security Sales (DoW/IC)Anthropic · 🇺🇸Washington, DC$550K - $700KLead and aboveSecurity clearanceFedRAMPPerformance management
- AVP, Federal SalesSamsara · 🇺🇸Remote - US$440K - $550KRemoteFedRAMPWCAG
- Area Vice President, Public SectorSierra · 🇺🇸US - Remote$500K - $520KRemoteLead and aboveFedRAMP
- Vice President, Platform OperationsNetskope · 🇺🇸United States$298K - $500KLead and aboveCDNNetwork engineeringData centers
- CISOGlean · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$424K - $489KLLMZendeskAI agents
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Full-stackAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$405K - $485KLead and aboveTypeScriptReactLLM
- Senior Manager, Detection and ResponseLambda · Bellevue Office$324K - $480KHybridSeniorMachine LearningLLMIncident response
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- VP & GM, Public SectorMongoDB · 🇺🇸Washington DC$200K - $450KLead and aboveGCPAzureAWS
- Client Platform EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KHybridGoPythonDocker
- Sales Manager, Public SectorHarvey · 🇺🇸Washington DC$400K - $440KRemoteFedRAMPPipeline management
- Security GRC LeadMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$350K - $425KLead and abovePythonSQLLLM
- Security Lead, Product and Infrastructure (InfoSec)River AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KLead and aboveDeep learningIncident responseIAM
- Engineering Manager (Security)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $405KHybridLLMCI/CDKubernetes
- Member of Technical Staff, Product SecurityInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPyTorchCI/CDKubernetes
- Federal Sales Manager, Intelligence CommunityOkta · 🇺🇸Washington, DC$288K - $396KMachine LearningSecurity clearanceFedRAMP
- Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KGoTerraformGCP
- Engineering Manager, Security (Cloud, Infrastructure & Application Security)Replit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $387KHybridGoPythonTypeScript
- Chief Information Security OfficerAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$252K - $382KLead and aboveCI/CDComputer VisionSecurity clearance
- Infrastructure LeadIntelligence Security Laboratories · 🇺🇸Washington, D.C.$205K - $375KHybridLead and aboveDockerLinuxCI/CD
Questions about FedRAMP pay
- What is the average FedRAMP salary?
- $212K a year on average and $198K at the median, across 367 open FedRAMP 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 $162K to $245K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest FedRAMP pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), Lambda ($330K), Replit ($295K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a fedramp a high-paying job?
- The median FedRAMP posting advertises $198K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 14% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a fedramp?
- A tenth of the postings offer $308K a year or more; the highest open FedRAMP role advertises up to $700K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the FedRAMP salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $198K a year is about $95 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,500 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $78 to $118 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for FedRAMP roles?
- Postings that ask for LLM (+$32K, 61 postings), HIPAA (+$26K, 44 postings), Go (+$19K, 71 postings) advertise more than the $198K median of all FedRAMP 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 FedRAMP roles at companies is $198K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $162K to $245K. Counted from 367 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/fedramp/
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