Sales Engineer salary: $182K median
From 393 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$182Kmedian advertised salary
$155K – $232Kmiddle half of roles
$192Kaverage advertised salary
393roles counted
Sales Engineer salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $235K, 30% more than senior roles ($181K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $181K | $164K–$234K | 130 |
| Lead and above | $235K | $178K–$262K | 39 |
| No level in title | $178K | $147K–$220K | 218 |
Sales Engineer salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $216K | 87 |
| 🇺🇸California | $211K | 108 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago | $199K | 22 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $195K | 57 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $180K | 380 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $174K | 21 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Intercom | $291K | 6 |
| Sierra | $285K | 16 |
| Plaid | $260K | 3 |
| CodeRabbit | $260K | 3 |
| Harness | $255K | 11 |
| Fivetran | $252K | 6 |
| OpenAI | $247K | 3 |
| Notion | $246K | 7 |
| Cresta | $245K | 3 |
| Hex | $238K | 3 |
| Okta | $238K | 5 |
| Kong | $235K | 4 |
| Netskope | $232K | 9 |
| Grafana Labs | $229K | 9 |
| Box | $216K | 3 |
| Synthesia | $216K | 4 |
| Deepgram | $212K | 3 |
| Socket | $206K | 4 |
| JFrog | $205K | 4 |
| ClickUp | $200K | 3 |
| Skydio | $194K | 14 |
| Ramp | $191K | 7 |
| Chainguard | $185K | 6 |
| Databricks | $180K | 3 |
| Apollo.io | $180K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Sales Engineer roles
All sales engineer jobs- VP, Sales Engineering NAMNetskope · 🇺🇸United States$444K - $634KLead
- Principal Services Solutions Consultant, Americas WWSAPure Storage · 🇺🇸New York, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania$260K - $456KLead
- Director, Solutions EngineeringIntercom · 🇺🇸NYC, Remote; San Francisco, California$328K - $392KRemoteLead
- Enterprise Solutions Consultant, San FranciscoNotion · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$306K - $390K
- Senior Solution EngineerLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Second St)$226K - $355KSeniorGoPythonC++
- Director, Solutions EngineeringIntercom · 🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois$296K - $353KLead
- Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering, Auth0Okta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New Yo…$252K - $347KSeniorGCPAzureMachine Learning
- Director, Field Sales EngineeringSamsara · 🇺🇸Remote - US$273K - $342KRemoteLead
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare One (SASE/SSE)Cloudflare · Distributed$244K - $336KSenior
- Staff Applied AI Engineer - Pre-SalesSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); U…$190K - $330KRemoteLeadPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Chicago/DetroitCensys · 🇺🇸Chicago$280K - $330K
- Enterprise Solutions Consultant (Atlanta, GA)Notion · 🇺🇸Atlanta, Georgia$288K - $326KRemote
- Sales Engineer - Regulated IndustriesPlaid · 🇺🇸San Francisco HQ$197K - $323K
- Sales Engineer - Public SectorPlaid · 🇺🇸San Francisco HQ$197K - $323K
- Sales Engineering Manager, CommercialHex · 🇺🇸New York$236K - $316KFigmaSnowflake
- Applied AI Demo EngineerAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$240K - $315KPythonTypeScriptLLM
- Enterprise Sales Engineer - Strategic, RetailSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$305K - $315K
- Enterprise Sales Engineer - Strategic, Consumer Business ServicesSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$305K - $315K
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta (Strategic Accounts - Midwest)Okta · 🇺🇸Minnesota$224K - $308KSeniorMachine LearningLLM
- Senior Sales Engineer, EnterpriseFivetran · 🇺🇸Remote, Texas, United States, AMER$198K - $303KRemoteSeniorPythonJavaSQL
Questions about Sales Engineer pay
- What is the average Sales Engineer salary?
- $192K a year on average and $182K at the median, across 393 open Sales Engineer 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 $155K to $232K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Sales Engineer pay?
- Intercom ($291K), Sierra ($285K), Plaid ($260K), 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 Sales Engineer roles at tech companies is $182K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $155K to $232K. Counted from 393 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/sales-engineer/
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