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MySQL salary: $215K median

From 197 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

$215Kmedian advertised salary
$175K – $256Kmiddle half of roles
$216Kaverage advertised salary
197roles counted

MySQL salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $260K, 23% more than senior roles ($212K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$212K$184K–$227K67
Lead and above$260K$230K–$290K50
No level in title$189K$150K–$240K78

MySQL salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$237K65
🇺🇸California$227K77
🇺🇸Seattle$227K15
🇺🇸United States$215K182
🇺🇸New York$215K32

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
Databricks$347K5
Roblox$318K3
Patreon$309K3
OpenAI$296K7
Nuro$266K3
ClickHouse$260K3
Block$256K10
Fivetran$254K5
Affirm$242K20
CoreWeave$233K6
Plaid$227K9
Okta$218K5
Justworks$215K9
Grafana Labs$192K3
PlanetScale$186K10
Temporal$186K3
Customer.io$175K4
Notion$172K5
ZoomInfo$144K3
SpaceX$142K12
Bill$133K3

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Questions about MySQL pay

What is the average MySQL salary?
$216K a year on average and $215K at the median, across 197 open MySQL 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 $175K to $256K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest MySQL pay?
Databricks ($347K), Roblox ($318K), Patreon ($309K), 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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