GIAC salary: $164K median
The median advertised GIAC salary is $164K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $138K to $205K: counted from 148 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $79 an hour or $13,625 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $232K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll GIAC jobs
$164Kmedian advertised salary
$138K – $205Kmiddle half of roles
$167Kaverage advertised salary
148roles counted
GIAC salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $210K, 18% more than senior roles ($178K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $178K | $162K–$205K | 40 |
| Lead and above | $210K | $168K–$232K | 28 |
| No level in the title | $144K | $122K–$164K | 79 |
GIAC salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $200K | 23 |
| 🇺🇸California | $184K | 42 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $178K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $164K | 140 |
Skills that pay more for GIAC roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| VPN | $209K | +$45K | 16 |
| SSO | $209K | +$45K | 14 |
| Active Directory | $206K | +$42K | 17 |
| Agile | $205K | +$42K | 18 |
| Application security | $205K | +$42K | 27 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Netskope | $233K | 6 |
| Muon Space | $206K | 3 |
| Samsara | $182K | 4 |
| K2 Space | $180K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $178K | 3 |
| Dark Wolf Solutions | $152K | 10 |
| Instacart | $149K | 3 |
| Avalore, LLC | $144K | 30 |
| 10a Labs | $127K | 3 |
| Charles River Associates | $106K | 4 |
| SpaceX | $105K | 6 |
Highest-paying open GIAC roles
All GIAC jobs- Security Engineer - Incident ResponseReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$230K - $360KHybridGoPythonGCP
- Security Engineer, ProductRogo · 🇺🇸New York City$270K - $330KRustGoPython
- Principal Product Security EngineerCribl · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$265K - $320KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Manager, Security Operations CenterRubrik · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$213K - $319KSeniorCISSPCISMGIAC
- Principal Software Engineer, Product SecuritySentilink · 🇺🇸United States$220K - $300KRemoteLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Staff Security Engineer, Detection & ResponseMaven Clinic · 🇺🇸New York, NY; Remote, US (Hub cities)$221K - $299KRemoteLead and aboveLLMCISSPGIAC
- Solutions EngineerNetskope · 🇺🇸Texas, United States$185K - $293KPythonGCPAzure
- Sr. Sales EngineerNetskope · 🇺🇸California, United States$178K - $290KSeniorPythonGCPAzure
- Staff Product Security EngineerAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$220K - $280KHybridLead and abovePythonJavaKotlin
- Head of Identity & Access ManagementApplied · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale$230K - $275KLead and aboveGCPAzureAWS
- Director of CybersecurityApex Technology · 🇺🇸Los Angeles$195K - $270KLead and abovePythonLinuxAWS
- Staff Security Engineer - SecOps & Threats6sense · 🇺🇸United States, Remote$231K - $266KRemoteLead and aboveAWSCISSPCISM
- Staff Engineer, Detection and ResponseApollo.io · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$184K - $264KRemoteLead and abovePythonDockerTerraform
- Staff Engineer, Security OperationsApollo.io · 🇺🇸Remote, United States$184K - $264KRemoteLead and abovePythonDockerTerraform
- Staff Security Engineer - AppSec6sense · 🇺🇸United States, Remote$201K - $256KRemoteLead and abovePythonJavaScriptAWS
- Senior Product Security EngineerAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$160K - $250KHybridSeniorPythonJavaKotlin
- Security & Threat Operations ManagerDriveWealth · 🇺🇸Office - Chicago; Office - NYC$200K - $250KPythonSQLKubernetes
- Principal Security Engineer, OperationsK2 Space · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA$180K - $250KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Network Security EngineerKargo · 🇺🇸Locations: San Francisco or Remote (East Coast)$200K - $250KRemoteGCPAWSCISSP
- Senior Security EngineerDeepgram · 🇺🇸USA - Remote$150K - $245KRemoteSeniorGoPythonDocker
Questions about GIAC pay
- What is the average GIAC salary?
- $167K a year on average and $164K at the median, across 148 open GIAC 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 $138K to $205K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest GIAC pay?
- Netskope ($233K), Muon Space ($206K), Samsara ($182K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a giac a high-paying job?
- The median GIAC posting advertises $164K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 6% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a giac?
- A tenth of the postings offer $232K a year or more; the highest open GIAC role advertises up to $360K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the GIAC salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $164K a year is about $79 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $13,625 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $66 to $99 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for GIAC roles?
- Postings that ask for VPN (+$45K, 16 postings), SSO (+$45K, 14 postings), Active Directory (+$42K, 17 postings) advertise more than the $164K median of all GIAC 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 GIAC roles at companies is $164K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $138K to $205K. Counted from 148 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/giac/
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