GitLab salary: $182K median
The median advertised GitLab salary is $182K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $148K to $203K: counted from 223 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $88 an hour or $15,208 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $232K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll GitLab jobs
$182Kmedian advertised salary
$148K – $203Kmiddle half of roles
$180Kaverage advertised salary
223roles counted
GitLab salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $230K, 25% more than senior roles ($184K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $184K | $162K–$210K | 78 |
| Lead and above | $230K | $178K–$245K | 35 |
| No level in the title | $168K | $138K–$200K | 107 |
GitLab salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $190K | 43 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $185K | 209 |
| 🇺🇸California | $185K | 73 |
| 🇺🇸Boston, MA | $162K | 15 |
Skills that pay more for GitLab roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control systems | $210K | +$28K | 23 |
| Security clearance | $200K | +$18K | 66 |
| PostgreSQL | $200K | +$18K | 24 |
| Confluence | $200K | +$18K | 28 |
| Ansible | $200K | +$18K | 51 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Crusoe | $231K | 5 |
| Omada Health | $228K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $222K | 19 |
| Motional | $200K | 5 |
| Captivation Software | $200K | 25 |
| CodeRabbit | $195K | 3 |
| Socket | $190K | 5 |
| Illumio | $185K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $178K | 4 |
| Semgrep | $178K | 3 |
| Hermeus | $168K | 3 |
| PathAI | $162K | 7 |
| Applied | $160K | 11 |
| RapidFort, Inc. | $150K | 5 |
| Snyk | $148K | 3 |
| Shield AI | $148K | 3 |
| Dark Wolf Solutions | $120K | 10 |
| Datadog | $118K | 6 |
| OneTrust | $108K | 4 |
| iCapital | $100K | 4 |
Highest-paying open GitLab roles
All GitLab jobs- Senior/Staff DevOps EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸New York, NY$192K - $455KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Senior/Staff DevOps EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$192K - $455KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Head of Technology PartnershipsSonar · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA$245K - $348KLead and aboveDockerCI/CDGitLab
- Cloud Platform EngineerBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridTerraformMachine LearningLLM
- Engineering Manager, Cloud PlatformBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridTerraformMachine LearningCI/CD
- Cloud Platform ArchitectSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$245K - $325KRustGoPython
- DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & SecurityScale AI · 🇺🇸Washington, DC$149K - $311KPythonDockerTerraform
- Senior Manager, Reliability & Platform EngineeringMcMaster-Carr · 🇺🇸Chicago, IL (Elmhurst)$270K - $310KSeniorPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Director of Developer ProductivityBill · 🇺🇸United States$207K - $304KLead and aboveCI/CDKubernetesAWS
- Senior Staff Automation EngineerCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$250K - $300KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLDocker
- Senior Engineering Manager, Developer ExperienceCrusoe · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA - US$250K - $300KSeniorGoLinuxCI/CD
- Senior Manager, Software Test and Automation (R6080)Shield AI · 🇺🇸Dallas, TX, US$200K - $300KSeniorCI/CDJenkinsROS
- Security Engineer – DevSecOps and Security ArchitectPhysicsX · 🇺🇸New York, New York$200K - $300KGoPythonCI/CD
- Staff Platform EngineerGrayscale · 🇺🇸Stamford, Connecticut, United States$195K - $295KLead and aboveDockerTerraformCI/CD
- Mission Autonomy Lead - ThunderAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$220K - $292KLead and abovePythonC++Docker
- Staff Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike - MissilesAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$191K - $292KLead and aboveC++JiraAgile
- Senior Backend Programmer (SCM & CI/CD)Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations$173K - $279KSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer, Observability/Site ReliabilityPsiQuantum · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California$165K - $277KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Director, Enterprise Customer Success ManagementCodeRabbit · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $275KHybridLead and aboveAzureCI/CDGit
- Principal Engineer Team Lead, Simulation InfrastructureMotional · 🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Las Vegas, Nevada…$200K - $275KRemoteLead and abovePythonC++SQL
Questions about GitLab pay
- What is the average GitLab salary?
- $180K a year on average and $182K at the median, across 223 open GitLab 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 $148K to $203K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest GitLab pay?
- Crusoe ($231K), Omada Health ($228K), Anduril Industries ($222K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a gitlab a high-paying job?
- The median GitLab posting advertises $182K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 5% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a gitlab?
- A tenth of the postings offer $232K a year or more; the highest open GitLab role advertises up to $455K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the GitLab salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $182K a year is about $88 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,208 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $71 to $98 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for GitLab roles?
- Postings that ask for Control systems (+$28K, 23 postings), Security clearance (+$18K, 66 postings), PostgreSQL (+$18K, 24 postings) advertise more than the $182K median of all GitLab 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 GitLab roles at companies is $182K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $148K to $203K. Counted from 223 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/gitlab/
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