Load testing salary: $179K median
The median advertised Load testing salary is $179K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $146K to $215K: counted from 238 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $86 an hour or $14,938 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $256K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Load testing jobs
$179Kmedian advertised salary
$146K – $215Kmiddle half of roles
$186Kaverage advertised salary
238roles counted
Load testing salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $229K, 29% more than senior roles ($178K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $178K | $169K–$200K | 84 |
| Lead and above | $229K | $192K–$256K | 46 |
| No level in the title | $164K | $125K–$200K | 101 |
Load testing salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 67 |
| 🇺🇸California | $193K | 126 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $178K | 225 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $171K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $166K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $162K | 20 |
Skills that pay more for Load testing roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firmware | $210K | +$31K | 25 |
| Go | $202K | +$22K | 32 |
| Computer Vision | $193K | +$14K | 24 |
| Kubernetes | $193K | +$14K | 60 |
| Root cause analysis | $188K | +$8K | 36 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | $292K | 9 |
| Roblox | $269K | 5 |
| Metropolis | $250K | 3 |
| Crusoe | $235K | 3 |
| CoreWeave | $232K | 5 |
| ClickHouse | $228K | 3 |
| Temporal | $224K | 3 |
| TextNow, Inc. | $205K | 3 |
| Cylake Inc | $200K | 3 |
| Anduril Industries | $193K | 21 |
| Pure Storage | $188K | 14 |
| Applied | $186K | 4 |
| K2 Space | $185K | 7 |
| Harbinger Motors Inc. | $180K | 3 |
| IonQ | $178K | 3 |
| Motional | $174K | 3 |
| SambaNova | $170K | 3 |
| Penn Interactive | $169K | 5 |
| Momentus Space LLC | $168K | 3 |
| Apex Technology | $155K | 3 |
| HawkEye 360 | $152K | 3 |
| iCapital | $145K | 3 |
| Rocket Lab | $144K | 3 |
| Kapitus | $125K | 5 |
| ALTEN Technology USA | $122K | 5 |
Highest-paying open Load testing roles
All Load testing jobs- ChatGPT Performance EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KGoPythonOpenAI API
- Software Engineer, Search InfrastructureOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KHybridA/B testingIncident responseLoad testing
- Principal Software Engineer, Creator AnalyticsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$345K - $399KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Senior Director, Fleet ManagementCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$325K - $370KLead and aboveData centersLoad testingFirmware
- Senior Engineering Manager, Test Systems & ToolingTemporal · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$221K - $362KRemoteSeniorCI/CDIncident responseLoad testing
- Hardware Engineering ManagerPure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$217K - $359KLoad testingHardware testingStorage systems
- Staff Software Engineer, Developer ExperienceHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$231K - $340KHybridLead and abovePythonDockerTerraform
- Research Staff, Voice AI FoundationsDeepgram · 🇺🇸USA - Remote$149K - $338KRemoteLead and aboveLLMAIDeep learning
- Software Engineer - Model Performance SystemsBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridPythonC++Machine Learning
- Software Engineer - Testing FrameworksBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridGoPythonDocker
- Principal Technical Product Manager, Hyperscale Line of BusinessPure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$269K - $329KLead and abovePythonLinuxBash
- Engineering Manager, Site Reliability EngineeringReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $325KHybridGCPKubernetesOpenTelemetry
- Performance Verification EngineerDensityAI · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$200K - $310KLoad testingHardware testingCompilers
- Principal Engineer, Distributed SystemsCoreWeave · 🇺🇸New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA$227K - $303KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads ML EfficiencyReddit · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$217K - $303KRemoteSeniorPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Global Lead, Commercial Risk StrategyAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$190K - $300KHybridLead and aboveLoad testingCard paymentsKYC
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Developer ExperienceCohere · 🇬🇧London$185K - $300KHybridLead and abovePythonTypeScriptDocker
- Senior Director System Validation EngineerAstera Labs · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$240K - $300KLead and aboveLinuxLoad testingFirmware
- Senior Software Engineer - Full StackLoancrate · 🇺🇸United States$170K - $300KRemoteSeniorTypeScriptReactPostgreSQL
- Software Developer - BackendTextNow, Inc. · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$124K - $299KGoPHPCI/CD
Questions about Load testing pay
- What is the average Load testing salary?
- $186K a year on average and $179K at the median, across 238 open Load testing 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 $146K to $215K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Load testing pay?
- OpenAI ($292K), Roblox ($269K), Metropolis ($250K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a load testing a high-paying job?
- The median Load testing posting advertises $179K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 3% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a load testing?
- A tenth of the postings offer $256K a year or more; the highest open Load testing role advertises up to $445K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Load testing salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $179K a year is about $86 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $14,938 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $70 to $103 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Load testing roles?
- Postings that ask for Firmware (+$31K, 25 postings), Go (+$22K, 32 postings), Computer Vision (+$14K, 24 postings) advertise more than the $179K median of all Load testing postings with pay.
- What does an entry-level load testing make?
- 7 junior and intern Load testing postings state pay, with a median of $118K a year ($56 an hour).
- 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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