HIPAA salary: $168K median
The median advertised HIPAA salary is $168K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $95K to $234K: counted from 535 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $81 an hour or $14,000 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $275K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll HIPAA jobs
$168Kmedian advertised salary
$95K – $234Kmiddle half of roles
$173Kaverage advertised salary
535roles counted
HIPAA salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $244K, 24% more than senior roles ($196K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $196K | $162K–$230K | 138 |
| Lead and above | $244K | $205K–$274K | 101 |
| No level in the title | $107K | $70K–$190K | 294 |
HIPAA salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $260K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $232K | 112 |
| 🇺🇸California | $232K | 122 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $210K | 93 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $172K | 445 |
| 🇺🇸Boston, MA | $168K | 24 |
| 🇺🇸Denver, CO | $135K | 23 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago, IL | $94K | 25 |
Skills that pay more for HIPAA roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLM | $233K | +$65K | 88 |
| Infrastructure as code | $232K | +$64K | 56 |
| Go | $231K | +$63K | 54 |
| SOC 2 | $220K | +$52K | 177 |
| ISO 27001 | $218K | +$50K | 106 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Lambda | $360K | 4 |
| Anthropic | $335K | 13 |
| Sierra | $285K | 5 |
| Cloudflare | $262K | 10 |
| Suki | $262K | 3 |
| Scale AI | $261K | 6 |
| Decagon | $261K | 3 |
| Braze | $249K | 4 |
| Perplexity | $245K | 5 |
| Vanta | $244K | 46 |
| OpenAI | $242K | 5 |
| Databricks | $234K | 6 |
| Garner Health | $232K | 7 |
| Headway | $230K | 3 |
| Assorthealth | $215K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $212K | 5 |
| Datavant | $207K | 3 |
| Hinge Health | $206K | 17 |
| Drata | $205K | 3 |
| Prompt | $202K | 4 |
| Heartflow | $188K | 6 |
| Virta Health | $186K | 17 |
| Mercor | $180K | 3 |
| Hims & Hers | $180K | 3 |
| Iambic Therapeutics | $171K | 3 |
Highest-paying open HIPAA roles
All HIPAA jobs- Principal Engineer, PrivacyAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$485K - $625KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonMachine Learning
- Remote Outpatient Psychiatrist (MD/DO)Blossom Health · 🇺🇸California$300K - $600KRemoteHIPAAEHRBoard certification
- Head of DesignVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$365K - $513KRemoteLead and aboveSOC 2ISO 27001Design systems
- CISOGlean · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$424K - $489KLLMZendeskAI agents
- Engineering Manager, EnterpriseAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$405K - $485KIncident responseSOC 2HIPAA
- Senior Manager, Detection and ResponseLambda · Bellevue Office$324K - $480KHybridSeniorMachine LearningLLMIncident response
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- VP, Success & ServicesVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$318K - $426KRemoteLead and aboveGCPAzureJira
- Security GRC LeadMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$350K - $425KLead and abovePythonSQLLLM
- Engineering Manager (Enterprise)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $405KRecommender systemsData governanceIncident response
- Member of Technical Staff, Product SecurityInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPyTorchCI/CDKubernetes
- Psych Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP, Psych APRN)Blossom Health · 🇺🇸California$200K - $400KRemoteHIPAABoard certification
- Software Engineer, Agent - HealthcareSierra · 🇺🇸New York, NY$180K - $390KTypeScriptReactLLM
- Product Manager, Agent Development - HealthcareSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$180K - $390KTypeScriptReactAI agents
- Software Engineer, HealthcareOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $385KHybridData governanceIncident responseDesign systems
- Manager, Engineering (Data Platform)Garner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$310K - $385KPythonTerraformKafka
- Infrastructure LeadIntelligence Security Laboratories · 🇺🇸Washington, D.C.$205K - $375KHybridLead and aboveDockerLinuxCI/CD
- Senior Counsel, Commercial (Health and Life Sciences)OpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$330K - $366KHybridSeniorHIPAALitigationContract drafting
- Senior Staff Frontier Agents EngineerScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$288K - $360KLead and abovePythonDockerTerraform
- Senior Engineering Manager, Device SoftwareHinge Health · 🇺🇸San Francisco-HQ$240K - $360KHybridSeniorPythonTypeScriptReact
Questions about HIPAA pay
- What is the average HIPAA salary?
- $173K a year on average and $168K at the median, across 535 open HIPAA 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 $95K to $234K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest HIPAA pay?
- Lambda ($360K), Anthropic ($335K), Sierra ($285K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a hipaa a high-paying job?
- The median HIPAA posting advertises $168K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 3% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a hipaa?
- A tenth of the postings offer $275K a year or more; the highest open HIPAA role advertises up to $625K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the HIPAA salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $168K a year is about $81 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $14,000 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $46 to $112 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for HIPAA roles?
- Postings that ask for LLM (+$65K, 88 postings), Infrastructure as code (+$64K, 56 postings), Go (+$63K, 54 postings) advertise more than the $168K median of all HIPAA 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 HIPAA roles at companies is $168K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $95K to $234K. Counted from 535 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/hipaa/
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