Jira salary: $162K median
From 575 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$162Kmedian advertised salary
$128K – $195Kmiddle half of roles
$163Kaverage advertised salary
575roles counted
Jira salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $216K, 31% more than senior roles ($165K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $165K | $145K–$192K | 186 |
| Lead and above | $216K | $189K–$243K | 100 |
| No level in title | $140K | $110K–$175K | 288 |
Jira salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $180K | 124 |
| 🇺🇸California | $176K | 277 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $170K | 35 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $162K | 543 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $160K | 21 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $158K | 72 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $141K | 28 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $131K | 20 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $281K | 4 |
| Brex | $270K | 3 |
| Databricks | $218K | 6 |
| Rubrik | $218K | 5 |
| Box | $217K | 4 |
| Zoox | $210K | 37 |
| Roblox | $205K | 4 |
| Muon Space | $201K | 3 |
| Nuro | $200K | 3 |
| BitGo | $200K | 3 |
| Apex Technology | $200K | 4 |
| Epirus | $199K | 4 |
| Wayve | $198K | 5 |
| Fivetran | $192K | 12 |
| Agility Robotics | $192K | 21 |
| Okta | $191K | 3 |
| Oura | $189K | 4 |
| Socure | $188K | 5 |
| Cloudflare | $187K | 8 |
| Whoop | $182K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $174K | 16 |
| Scale AI | $171K | 4 |
| Ripple | $171K | 7 |
| IonQ | $171K | 7 |
| Lucid Motors | $171K | 17 |
Highest-paying open Jira roles
All Jira jobs- VP, Success & ServicesVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$318K - $426KRemoteLeadGCPAzureJira
- Vice President, Strategic Program Management Office (SPMO)Agility Robotics · Remote$250K - $390KRemoteLeadJira
- Network Infrastructure Delivery ManagerLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$236K - $370KMachine LearningJira
- Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Global Security OfficeMongoDB · 🇺🇸United States$185K - $363KLeadGCPAzureJira
- Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, GovernmentOpenAI · 🇺🇸Washington, DC$211K - $335KGoPythonTypeScript
- AV Engineer, Platform & AutomationAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$285K - $325KGoPythonTypeScript
- AV Production SpecialistAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$285K - $325KJira
- Sr. Staff Engineer, Motion Planning and Controls, Autonomous DrivingLucid Motors · 🇺🇸Newark, CA$217K - $318KLeadC++Jira
- VP, Provider Integration & ExperienceOscar Health · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States$240K - $315KLeadSQLTableauJira
- Lead Technical Program Manager, DataWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$259K - $312KLeadPythonDockerAzure
- Staff SRE, Incident ManagementWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$276K - $311KLeadGoPythonTerraform
- Senior Staff Engineer: 3D ReconstructionAechelon Technology · 🇺🇸South San Francisco, CA$280K - $310KLeadPythonC++Jira
- Director, Strategic Programs & Operations, CAODatabricks · 🇺🇸West Coast - United States$189K - $305KLeadPythonSQLJira
- Staff Product DesignerBrex · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States$240K - $300KLeadFigmaLookerJira
- Staff Product DesignerBrex · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States$240K - $300KLeadFigmaLookerJira
- Technical Program Manager, HardwareDensityAI · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$129K - $300KRustC++Linux
- Staff Software Engineer, Hardware InterfaceAgility Robotics · 🇺🇸Hybrid- Fremont, CA$230K - $299KLeadPythonC++Linux
- Principal Product Operations ManagerSocure · 🇺🇸Hub - San Francisco$247K - $297KLeadSQLAzureLLM
- System Safety Engineer, Strategic Programs & IntegrationWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA, Kirkland, WA, USA$241K - $297KPythonSQLJira
- Staff Technical Program Manager - Compute HardwareZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$213K - $296KLeadJira
Questions about Jira pay
- What is the average Jira salary?
- $163K a year on average and $162K at the median, across 575 open Jira 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 $128K to $195K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Jira pay?
- Anthropic ($281K), Brex ($270K), Databricks ($218K), 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 Jira roles at tech companies is $162K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $128K to $195K. Counted from 575 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/jira/
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