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Istio salary: $222K median

The median advertised Istio salary is $222K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $194K to $267K: counted from 146 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $107 an hour or $18,542 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $312K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$222Kmedian advertised salary
$194K – $267Kmiddle half of roles
$235Kaverage advertised salary
146roles counted

Istio salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $260K, 20% more than senior roles ($216K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$216K$198K–$241K56
Lead and above$260K$223K–$286K35
No level in the title$208K$162K–$285K55

Istio salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$254K58
🇺🇸California$244K75
🇺🇸New York, NY$225K22
🇺🇸United States$222K141

Skills that pay more for Istio roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
LLM$267K+$44K17
TypeScript$260K+$38K21
Load balancing$260K+$38K21
Rust$255K+$32K23
GitOps$230K+$8K25

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
Anthropic$445K3
OpenAI$356K7
Roblox$306K5
Reddit$260K4
EarnIn$254K3
CoreWeave$241K3
Coinbase$237K3
Box$223K4
Anduril Industries$222K3
True Anomaly$218K5
Kong$212K7
Temporal$211K4
Jiffy$208K4
SpaceX$206K8
Metropolis$198K3
Dark Wolf Solutions$182K3
Harvey$151K3

Highest-paying open Istio roles

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Questions about Istio pay

What is the average Istio salary?
$235K a year on average and $222K at the median, across 146 open Istio 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 $194K to $267K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest Istio pay?
Anthropic ($445K), OpenAI ($356K), Roblox ($306K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is an istio a high-paying job?
The median Istio posting advertises $222K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 28% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as an istio?
A tenth of the postings offer $312K a year or more; the highest open Istio role advertises up to $625K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the Istio salary per hour and per month?
The median of $222K a year is about $107 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $18,542 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $93 to $128 an hour.
Which skills pay more for Istio roles?
Postings that ask for LLM (+$44K, 17 postings), TypeScript (+$38K, 21 postings), Load balancing (+$38K, 21 postings) advertise more than the $222K median of all Istio 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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