SciPy salary: $194K median
The median advertised SciPy salary is $194K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $163K to $222K: counted from 50 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $94 an hour or $16,208 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $242K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll SciPy jobs
$194Kmedian advertised salary
$163K – $222Kmiddle half of roles
$189Kaverage advertised salary
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SciPy salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸California | $200K | 29 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $194K | 48 |
Skills that pay more for SciPy roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI | $225K | +$30K | 5 |
| CFD | $222K | +$28K | 11 |
| scikit-learn | $215K | +$20K | 7 |
| Simulink | $210K | +$16K | 20 |
| Sensor fusion | $210K | +$16K | 20 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anduril Industries | $210K | 21 |
| Rocket Lab | $144K | 8 |
| SpaceX | $142K | 3 |
Highest-paying open SciPy roles
All SciPy jobs- Senior Machine Learning ProgrammerEpic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations$233K - $341KSeniorPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Senior GNC Engineer II- Mission FormulationRocket Lab · 🇺🇸Long Beach, CA$162K - $300KSeniorPythonC++MATLAB
- Staff Discovery EngineerAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Washington, District of Columbia, United States$220K - $292KLead and abovePythonMATLABComputer Vision
- Staff Discovery EngineerAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$220K - $292KLead and abovePythonMATLABComputer Vision
- Machine Learning Programmer, MemoryEpic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations$184K - $271KPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Software Engineer 2 - Spark/MapReduce/SQL/NoSQL/Pandas/Numpy/SciPyCaptivation Software · 🇺🇸Annapolis Junction, MD$130K - $270KSQLPandasSecurity clearance
- Sr. Software Engineer, Full Stack (Data & Video Analysis)SpaceX · 🇺🇸Hawthorne, CA$165K - $265KSeniorRustGoPython
- Senior Software Engineering ManagerRigetti · 🇺🇸Berkeley, CA or Fremont, CA$220K - $250KSeniorRustGoPython
- Senior Machine Learning EngineerPhysicsX · 🇺🇸New York, United States$200K - $250KSeniorPythonMachine LearningFastAPI
- Senior Data ScientistWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$210K - $240KHybridSeniorPythonSQLPyTorch
- Senior Data Scientist, Medical ImagingHeartflow · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$170K - $240KSeniorPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Data ScientistPhysicsX · 🇺🇸New York, United States$120K - $240KPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Staff Applied Machine Learning Scientist (Health)Whoop · 🇺🇸Boston, MA$170K - $230KLead and abovePythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Staff Photonics Design & PDK Modeling EngineerLightmatter · 🇺🇸🇨🇦Boston, MA; Mountain View, CA; Toronto, ON$185K - $220KLead and abovePythonVerilogNumPy
- Senior GNC Engineer I - Mission FormulationRocket Lab · 🇺🇸Long Beach, CA$132K - $216KSeniorPythonC++MATLAB
- Senior Modeling & Simulation Engineer (TS/SCI)K2 Space · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA$160K - $200KSeniorRustPythonC++
- Data ScientistFuse · 🇺🇸San Leandro, California$145K - $190KPythonC++PyTorch
- Data Scientist, ProductMirage · 🇺🇸Union Square, New York City$120K - $180KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Machine Learning Engineer, Predictive MaintenanceAssetWatch, Inc. · 🇺🇸United States$151K - $175KPythonSQLDocker
- Product & Risk Analytics ManagerRain Technologies · 🇺🇸United States$150K - $170KRemotePythonSQLMachine Learning
Questions about SciPy pay
- What is the average SciPy salary?
- $189K a year on average and $194K at the median, across 50 open SciPy 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 $163K to $222K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest SciPy pay?
- Anduril Industries ($210K), Rocket Lab ($144K), SpaceX ($142K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a scipy a high-paying job?
- The median SciPy posting advertises $194K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 12% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a scipy?
- A tenth of the postings offer $242K a year or more; the highest open SciPy role advertises up to $341K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the SciPy salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $194K a year is about $94 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,208 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $78 to $107 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for SciPy roles?
- Postings that ask for AI (+$30K, 5 postings), CFD (+$28K, 11 postings), scikit-learn (+$20K, 7 postings) advertise more than the $194K median of all SciPy 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 SciPy roles at companies is $194K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $163K to $222K. Counted from 50 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/scipy/
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