Puppet salary: $177K median
The median advertised Puppet salary is $177K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $142K to $200K: counted from 128 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $85 an hour or $14,771 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $222K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Puppet jobs
$177Kmedian advertised salary
$142K – $200Kmiddle half of roles
$176Kaverage advertised salary
128roles counted
Puppet salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $188K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $178K | 127 |
| 🇺🇸California | $173K | 81 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $142K | 42 |
Skills that pay more for Puppet roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | $213K | +$36K | 15 |
| Prometheus | $213K | +$36K | 20 |
| Grafana | $213K | +$36K | 21 |
| ELK stack | $213K | +$36K | 12 |
| Computer Vision | $213K | +$36K | 14 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anduril Industries | $213K | 14 |
| Captivation Software | $200K | 11 |
| Crusoe | $188K | 5 |
| Vast | $177K | 3 |
| GitLab | $176K | 3 |
| JFrog | $165K | 3 |
| SpaceX | $142K | 51 |
| Datadog | $118K | 7 |
Highest-paying open Puppet roles
All Puppet jobs- Helix AI Engineer, Data InfrastructureFigure · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$150K - $400KPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- AI Infrastructure EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonC++GCP
- Sr. ML Infrastructure EngineerxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorRustPythonC++
- GTM Applications EngineerCursor · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$240K - $325KGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Staff Automation EngineerCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$250K - $300KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLDocker
- Head of IT Systems EngineeringAsana · 🇺🇸San Francisco$252K - $296KLead and abovePythonFigmaBash
- Senior Platform Engineer - Container ServicesAdyen · 🇺🇸San Francisco$198K - $293KSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Software EngineerStripe · 🇺🇸Seattle, WA$190K - $286KGoPythonRuby
- DevOps Engineer - AWS/Ansible/Linux/PythonCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸San Antonio, TX$130K - $270KPythonJavaPostgreSQL
- DevOps Engineer - AWS/Ansible/Linux/PythonCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Columbia, MD$130K - $270KPythonJavaPostgreSQL
- Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer (Components)SpaceX · 🇺🇸Hawthorne, CA$165K - $265KSeniorPythonJavaScriptReact
- Sr. High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems EngineerSpaceX · 🇺🇸Hawthorne, CA$165K - $265KSeniorPythonDockerLinux
- Senior Software Engineer, AI PlatformAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Washington, District of Columbia, United States$191K - $254KSeniorRustPythonC++
- Senior Software Engineer, AI PlatformAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$191K - $254KSeniorRustPythonC++
- Staff/Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform EngineeringHarness · 🇺🇸U.S. (Remote)$200K - $250KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer, StorageCrusoe · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA - US$195K - $245KLead and aboveRustGoJava
- Senior Platform EngineerAdyen · 🇺🇸Chicago$180K - $243KSeniorPythonKotlinSwift
- Staff HPC Infrastructure EngineerVast · 🇺🇸Long Beach, California, United States$171K - $243KLead and abovePythonTerraformGCP
- Senior Software Engineer, Server Fleet InfrastructureCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA$139K - $242KSeniorGoLinuxCI/CD
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer - (US-Remote)ClickHouse · 🇺🇸United States$150K - $230KRemoteSeniorGoPythonSQL
Questions about Puppet pay
- What is the average Puppet salary?
- $176K a year on average and $177K at the median, across 128 open Puppet 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 $142K to $200K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Puppet pay?
- Anduril Industries ($213K), Captivation Software ($200K), Crusoe ($188K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a puppet a high-paying job?
- The median Puppet posting advertises $177K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 2% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a puppet?
- A tenth of the postings offer $222K a year or more; the highest open Puppet role advertises up to $400K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Puppet salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $177K a year is about $85 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $14,771 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $69 to $96 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Puppet roles?
- Postings that ask for Rust (+$36K, 15 postings), Prometheus (+$36K, 20 postings), Grafana (+$36K, 21 postings) advertise more than the $177K median of all Puppet 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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The median advertised salary for Puppet roles at companies is $177K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $142K to $200K. Counted from 128 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/puppet/
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