Looker salary: $154K median
From 359 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$154Kmedian advertised salary
$122K – $192Kmiddle half of roles
$162Kaverage advertised salary
359roles counted
Looker salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $201K, 21% more than senior roles ($167K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $167K | $134K–$190K | 128 |
| Lead and above | $201K | $145K–$237K | 66 |
| No level in title | $139K | $115K–$166K | 162 |
Looker salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $178K | 95 |
| 🇺🇸California | $178K | 111 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $163K | 89 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $155K | 329 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $148K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $115K | 25 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Zip | $240K | 3 |
| Socure | $225K | 3 |
| Discord | $220K | 3 |
| Ramp | $215K | 12 |
| Motional | $206K | 5 |
| Airwallex | $200K | 5 |
| Ripple | $185K | 3 |
| Zoox | $184K | 7 |
| Coinbase | $182K | 9 |
| Fivetran | $177K | 28 |
| Fingerprint | $176K | 4 |
| Garner Health | $174K | 6 |
| Chime | $169K | 7 |
| Block | $169K | 4 |
| Crusoe | $169K | 6 |
| Hopper | $165K | 3 |
| Maven Clinic | $162K | 7 |
| CoreWeave | $149K | 4 |
| Twilio | $148K | 3 |
| Ironclad | $148K | 3 |
| SpaceX | $148K | 7 |
| AssemblyAI | $145K | 4 |
| Harvey | $140K | 5 |
| Angi | $140K | 5 |
| Brex | $136K | 7 |
Highest-paying open Looker roles
All Looker jobs- Senior Staff Data EngineerCohere · 🇨🇦Toronto$275K - $450KLeadTerraformAirflowdbt
- Senior Manager, Account Manager, EnterpriseRamp · 🇺🇸New York, NY (HQ)$315K - $415KSeniorLooker
- Senior Manager, Account Executive | Mid-MarketRamp · 🇺🇸New York, NY (HQ)$360K - $400KSeniorLooker
- Analytics EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $400KPythonSQLdbt
- Group Product Manager, Data/MLDiscord · 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$304K - $380KMachine LearningTableauLooker
- Senior Director of Paid MediaOkta · 🇺🇸🇨🇦Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, C…$240K - $369KLeadMachine LearningTableauLooker
- Senior Manager, Data ScienceGoFundMe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$243K - $364KSeniorPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Senior Director, Corporate FP&AMixpanel · 🇺🇸San Francisco, US (Hybrid)$286K - $358KLeadTableauLookerPower BI
- Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$175K - $330KLeadPythonSQLLLM
- Director of Data and Analytics, Self Service CloudElastic · 🇺🇸United States$170K - $323KLeadSQLAirflowdbt
- Associate Director, Revenue Strategy, Enterprise, AmericasAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$150K - $320KLeadSQLTableauLooker
- Senior Manager, GTM & Revenue FinanceCohere · 🇺🇸United States$210K - $320KSeniorTableauLookerPower BI
- VP, Growth MarketingLater · 🇺🇸Boston, MA; New York, New York, United States; Remote$276K - $318KRemoteLeadLookerHubSpotSEO
- Senior Software Engineer - Pipeline Infrastructure & IntegrationZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$219K - $315KSeniorPythonTypeScriptReact
- GTM Strategy & Operations - AMER Enterprise TechAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$270K - $310KPythonSQLTableau
- Staff Product DesignerBrex · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States$240K - $300KLeadFigmaLookerJira
- Staff Product DesignerBrex · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States$240K - $300KLeadFigmaLookerJira
- Head of Business DataZip · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $300KLeadLLMdbtTableau
- Sr. Lead, Product Management - FinTechMongoDB · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$151K - $297KLeadSQLGCPAzure
- Principal Product Operations ManagerSocure · 🇺🇸Hub - San Francisco$247K - $297KLeadSQLAzureLLM
Questions about Looker pay
- What is the average Looker salary?
- $162K a year on average and $154K at the median, across 359 open Looker 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 $122K to $192K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Looker pay?
- Zip ($240K), Socure ($225K), Discord ($220K), 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 Looker roles at tech companies is $154K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $122K to $192K. Counted from 359 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/looker/
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