Python salary: $202K median
From 4,651 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$202Kmedian advertised salary
$163K – $242Kmiddle half of roles
$210Kaverage advertised salary
4,651roles counted
Python salary by level
Senior roles advertise a median of $199K, 39% more than junior roles ($143K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | $143K | $118K–$164K | 52 |
| Senior | $199K | $178K–$220K | 1,554 |
| Lead and above | $245K | $215K–$279K | 963 |
| No level in title | $180K | $142K–$232K | 2,078 |
Python salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧London & the UK | $239K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $226K | 1,919 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $216K | 650 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $214K | 116 |
| 🇺🇸California | $212K | 2,686 |
| 🇪🇺Europe | $210K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $202K | 4,411 |
| 🇺🇸Pittsburgh | $200K | 46 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle | $188K | 423 |
| 🇨🇦Canada | $188K | 46 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $187K | 82 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $187K | 113 |
| 🇺🇸Boston | $187K | 130 |
| 🇺🇸Denver | $187K | 110 |
| 🇺🇸Austin | $187K | 64 |
| 🇺🇸Atlanta | $175K | 33 |
| 🇺🇸Florida | $173K | 23 |
| 🇺🇸Miami | $170K | 17 |
| 🇺🇸Dallas | $169K | 43 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles | $147K | 424 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 149 |
| Mercor | $330K | 14 |
| OpenAI | $326K | 155 |
| Perplexity | $312K | 35 |
| Lambda | $312K | 27 |
| River AI Inc. | $310K | 8 |
| Decagon | $300K | 21 |
| Suno | $296K | 15 |
| Replit | $295K | 7 |
| Sentry | $295K | 15 |
| Wayve | $288K | 39 |
| Discord | $279K | 11 |
| Cursor | $278K | 9 |
| Harvey | $275K | 54 |
| Unstructured | $275K | 3 |
| $271K | 25 | |
| Roblox | $269K | 65 |
| Goodfire | $268K | 5 |
| Figma | $264K | 16 |
| Snorkel AI | $261K | 16 |
| $260K | 45 | |
| Render | $260K | 3 |
| Vercel | $260K | 5 |
| Ambience Healthcare | $254K | 4 |
| Waymo | $254K | 90 |
Highest-paying open Python roles
All Python jobs- Performance Engineer, Inference SystemsAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$350K - $850KPythonSQLLLM
- Pre-training Data Infrastructure EngineerAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$500K - $850KRustPythonMachine Learning
- Data Engineering Manager, Growth & RevenueOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$459K - $536KPythonSQLScala
- Data Scientist, FinEngOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$293K - $515KPythonSQL
- Principal Engineer, Big Data PlatformPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$243K - $500KRemoteLeadGoPythonJava
- Infrastructure Software EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KGoPythonPostgreSQL
- Software Engineer, AgentsMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $500KPythonTypeScriptReact
- Senior Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Autonomy BehaviorsZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$340K - $492KLeadPythonC++Machine Learning
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $485KRustPythonLLM
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $485KPythonC++Machine Learning
- Staff Software Engineer - ComputeLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KLeadRustGoPython
- Staff Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$314K - $465KLeadPythonMachine LearningLinux
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Curation & Dataset StrategyWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$390K - $460KLeadPythonMachine LearningAI
- Principal Research Scientist – Multimodal Reasoning & Embodied AIWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$407K - $460KLeadPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & EvalsHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $450KPythonLLM
- Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement LearningHarvey · 🇺🇸New York$230K - $450KPythonLLM
- Principal Software Engineer, ML & Media InfraPinterest · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA; US; San Francisco, CA, US$285K - $450KLeadPythonJavaC++
- Engineering Manager, GrowthSentry · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$220K - $450KPythonTypeScriptReact
- Software Engineer, Evaluation InfrastructurexAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $440KRustPythonC++
- Engineering Manager, Agent ProductDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$280K - $430KPythonTypeScriptLLM
Questions about Python pay
- What is the average Python salary?
- $210K a year on average and $202K at the median, across 4,651 open Python 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 $163K to $242K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Python pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), Mercor ($330K), OpenAI ($326K), 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 Python roles at tech companies is $202K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $163K to $242K. Counted from 4,651 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/python/
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