Go salary: $212K median
From 1,616 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$212Kmedian advertised salary
$180K – $250Kmiddle half of roles
$219Kaverage advertised salary
1,616roles counted
Go salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $239K, 18% more than senior roles ($202K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $202K | $185K–$223K | 598 |
| Lead and above | $239K | $220K–$275K | 414 |
| No level in title | $193K | $148K–$250K | 590 |
Go salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $232K | 714 |
| 🇺🇸California | $220K | 842 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $215K | 258 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $212K | 1,504 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $210K | 178 |
| 🇪🇺Europe | $207K | 19 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $206K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $204K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $197K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $191K | 27 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $161K | 26 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $146K | 100 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $402K | 36 |
| OpenAI | $356K | 40 |
| Mercor | $330K | 7 |
| Lambda | $312K | 23 |
| Perplexity | $312K | 23 |
| Sierra | $310K | 11 |
| Sentry | $302K | 4 |
| Garner Health | $296K | 4 |
| Replit | $295K | 8 |
| $286K | 7 | |
| SambaNova | $285K | 5 |
| Observe.AI | $285K | 3 |
| Roblox | $269K | 65 |
| Cribl | $265K | 4 |
| Patreon | $265K | 3 |
| Figma | $264K | 9 |
| Armada | $261K | 3 |
| Harvey | $260K | 14 |
| $260K | 33 | |
| Vercel | $260K | 6 |
| Hims & Hers | $260K | 7 |
| Ramp | $260K | 4 |
| Block | $256K | 7 |
| Zoox | $256K | 3 |
| xAI | $255K | 15 |
Highest-paying open Go roles
All Go jobs- Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform SecurityAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA$485K - $625KGoLinux
- Principal Engineer, PrivacyAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$485K - $625KRemoteLeadGoPythonMachine Learning
- Network EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $510KGoPythonTerraform
- Principal Engineer, Big Data PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$243K - $500KRemoteLeadGoPythonJava
- Infrastructure Software EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Software Engineer, Applied AI - Frontier EngineeringMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KRustGoPython
- Full Stack Engineer, Fleet SchedulingOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $490KGoPythonReact
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $485KRustGoC++
- Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $485KRustGoPython
- Staff Software Engineer - ComputeLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KLeadRustGoPython
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Director, Product DesignRamp · 🇺🇸New York, NY (HQ)$320K - $440KLeadGo
- Vice President, Clinical DevelopmentKardigan · 🇺🇸Princeton, New Jersey, United States$340K - $416KLeadGo
- Forward Deployed Engineer, InferenceCohere · 🇺🇸United States$240K - $415KGoPythonC++
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI PlatformReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$292K - $410KRemoteLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Principal Software Engineer, InfrastructureReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$287K - $401KRemoteLeadRustGoPython
- Senior Software EngineerSardine · 🇧🇷Brazil$285K - $400KRemoteSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Software Engineer, Foundational StorageSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$190K - $400KSeniorRustGoPython
- Helix AI Engineer, BackendFigure · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$200K - $400KGoPythonReact
- Staff Software Engineer, Platform & InfrastructureSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$240K - $400KLeadGoPythonJava
Questions about Go pay
- What is the average Go salary?
- $219K a year on average and $212K at the median, across 1,616 open Go 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 $180K to $250K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Go pay?
- Anthropic ($402K), OpenAI ($356K), Mercor ($330K), 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 Go roles at tech companies is $212K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $180K to $250K. Counted from 1,616 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/go/
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