GCP salary: $207K median
From 1,568 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$207Kmedian advertised salary
$176K – $238Kmiddle half of roles
$213Kaverage advertised salary
1,568roles counted
GCP salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $232K, 19% more than senior roles ($195K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $195K | $176K–$216K | 566 |
| Lead and above | $232K | $212K–$274K | 436 |
| No level in title | $195K | $156K–$228K | 560 |
GCP salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 582 |
| 🇺🇸California | $216K | 659 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $214K | 127 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $211K | 314 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $208K | 1,478 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $205K | 65 |
| 🇺🇸Florida | $188K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $188K | 47 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $187K | 58 |
| 🇺🇸Dallas | $187K | 24 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $187K | 86 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $187K | 59 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $187K | 51 |
| 🇺🇸Atlanta | $175K | 25 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $170K | 15 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 53 |
| OpenAI | $350K | 15 |
| Perplexity | $312K | 3 |
| Decagon | $300K | 7 |
| Mercor | $300K | 3 |
| Suno | $296K | 3 |
| Sentry | $295K | 5 |
| Lambda | $288K | 5 |
| Replit | $288K | 10 |
| Roblox | $288K | 4 |
| Sierra | $279K | 4 |
| Figure | $275K | 3 |
| Ripple | $262K | 6 |
| Linear | $261K | 3 |
| Vercel | $260K | 7 |
| Snorkel AI | $260K | 5 |
| Docker | $258K | 10 |
| Cohere | $258K | 7 |
| Block | $256K | 4 |
| Scale AI | $255K | 28 |
| Waymo | $254K | 6 |
| Apollo.io | $253K | 6 |
| Ramp | $251K | 5 |
| CodeRabbit | $250K | 9 |
| Astronomer | $248K | 4 |
Highest-paying open GCP roles
All GCP jobs- Research Engineer, DiscoveryAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$350K - $850KDockerGCPPyTorch
- Manager, Enterprise Sales - Asset & Wealth ManagementAnthropic · 🇺🇸New York City, NY$450K - $700KGCPMachine LearningLLM
- Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸US - Remote$401K - $510KRemoteLeadGCPAzureCI/CD
- Field CTODruva · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, CA$346K - $485KGCPAzureAWS
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $485KRustGoC++
- VP & GM, Public SectorMongoDB · 🇺🇸Washington DC$200K - $450KLeadGCPAzureAWS
- Security Engineer, Agent SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KRustGoPython
- VP, Success & ServicesVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$318K - $426KRemoteLeadGCPAzureJira
- Director of Platform EngineeringPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$340K - $425KLeadGCPAWS
- SVP, Revenue MarketingMongoDB · 🇺🇸United States$213K - $419KGCPAzureAWS
- Staff Software Engineer (Hybrid, San Francisco)Apollo.io · 🇺🇸Hybrid, San Francisco$315K - $415KLeadPythonReactRuby
- Forward Deployed Engineer, InferenceCohere · 🇺🇸United States$240K - $415KGoPythonC++
- Senior Director, Global SME Solutions ArchitectureGitLab · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$244K - $410KRemoteLeadGCPAzureLLM
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$292K - $410KRemoteLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Member of Technical Staff (Offensive Security Engineer)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KGoPythonGCP
- Lakebase Associate Director- Financial ServicesDatabricks · 🇺🇸United States$292K - $402KLeadPostgreSQLGCPAzure
- Lakebase Associate Director, Healthcare & Life SciencesDatabricks · 🇺🇸Central - United States; Northeast - United States; South…$292K - $402KLeadPostgreSQLGCPAzure
- Engineering Director, Agentic AI Data PlatformAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$300K - $400KLeadPythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Regional VP, SouthwestClickHouse · 🇺🇸Denver$350K - $400KRemoteLeadGCPAzureLLM
- Regional VP, SoutheastClickHouse · 🇺🇸Atlanta$350K - $400KRemoteLeadGCPAzureLLM
Questions about GCP pay
- What is the average GCP salary?
- $213K a year on average and $207K at the median, across 1,568 open GCP 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 $176K to $238K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest GCP pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), OpenAI ($350K), Perplexity ($312K), 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 GCP roles at tech companies is $207K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $176K to $238K. Counted from 1,568 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/gcp/
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