IAM salary: $201K median
The median advertised IAM salary is $201K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $245K: counted from 660 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $97 an hour or $16,729 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $285K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll IAM jobs
$201Kmedian advertised salary
$165K – $245Kmiddle half of roles
$207Kaverage advertised salary
660roles counted
IAM salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $238K, 25% more than senior roles ($190K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $190K | $168K–$212K | 209 |
| Lead and above | $238K | $211K–$270K | 196 |
| No level in the title | $179K | $145K–$231K | 254 |
IAM salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $226K | 213 |
| 🇺🇸California | $216K | 281 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $212K | 58 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $208K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸Denver, CO | $208K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $205K | 124 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $202K | 604 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago, IL | $198K | 32 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $192K | 38 |
| 🇺🇸Boston, MA | $175K | 21 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $172K | 24 |
| 🇺🇸San Diego, CA | $162K | 20 |
Skills that pay more for IAM roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Threat modeling | $230K | +$29K | 96 |
| LLM | $230K | +$29K | 107 |
| AI agents | $225K | +$24K | 78 |
| Application security | $219K | +$18K | 98 |
| Kubernetes | $217K | +$16K | 212 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $422K | 8 |
| Lambda | $368K | 5 |
| Sierra | $310K | 5 |
| Decagon | $300K | 3 |
| Replit | $288K | 7 |
| Discord | $279K | 4 |
| Roblox | $274K | 8 |
| Perplexity | $271K | 4 |
| Brex | $270K | 3 |
| Ripple | $262K | 5 |
| ClickHouse | $260K | 6 |
| Vercel | $260K | 4 |
| Snorkel AI | $260K | 3 |
| Zoox | $254K | 3 |
| Hex | $250K | 3 |
| OpenAI | $242K | 5 |
| Harvey | $235K | 7 |
| $229K | 3 | |
| Pure Storage | $228K | 3 |
| Databricks | $224K | 18 |
| Affirm | $222K | 6 |
| Chainguard | $218K | 3 |
| Rogo | $218K | 3 |
| Docker | $217K | 4 |
| Crusoe | $215K | 10 |
Highest-paying open IAM roles
All IAM jobs- CISOGlean · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$424K - $489KLLMZendeskAI agents
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Auth & IdentityAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$405K - $485KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$405K - $485KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Field CTODruva · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, CA$346K - $485KGCPAzureAWS
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Lead / Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer - Console ExperienceLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$349K - $465KHybridLead and aboveTypeScriptReactMachine Learning
- Senior/Staff DevOps EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸New York, NY$192K - $455KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Senior/Staff DevOps EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$192K - $455KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Senior Staff Data EngineerCohere · 🇨🇦Toronto$275K - $450KHybridLead and aboveTerraformAirflowdbt
- Security Engineer, Agent SecurityOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KRustGoPython
- IT Software Architect, SaaS Enablement and GovernanceOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KHybridAI agentsData qualityIncident response
- Security GRC LeadMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$350K - $425KLead and abovePythonSQLLLM
- Security Lead, Product and Infrastructure (InfoSec)River AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KLead and aboveDeep learningIncident responseIAM
- Engineering Manager (Enterprise)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $405KRecommender systemsData governanceIncident response
- Engineering Manager (Security)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $405KHybridLLMCI/CDKubernetes
- Vice President, Vertical Strategy & CommercializationOkta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New Yo…$294K - $404KLead and aboveMachine LearningIAMFraud prevention
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- Member of Technical Staff, Product SecurityInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPyTorchCI/CDKubernetes
- Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)Sierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KTerraformLLMCI/CD
Questions about IAM pay
- What is the average IAM salary?
- $207K a year on average and $201K at the median, across 660 open IAM 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 $165K to $245K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest IAM pay?
- Anthropic ($422K), Lambda ($368K), Sierra ($310K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is an iam a high-paying job?
- The median IAM posting advertises $201K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 15% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as an iam?
- A tenth of the postings offer $285K a year or more; the highest open IAM role advertises up to $489K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the IAM salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $201K a year is about $97 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,729 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $79 to $118 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for IAM roles?
- Postings that ask for Threat modeling (+$29K, 96 postings), LLM (+$29K, 107 postings), AI agents (+$24K, 78 postings) advertise more than the $201K median of all IAM 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 IAM roles at companies is $201K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $165K to $245K. Counted from 660 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/iam/
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