SOAR salary: $202K median
The median advertised SOAR salary is $202K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $162K to $240K: counted from 36 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $97 an hour or $16,875 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $300K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll SOAR jobs
$202Kmedian advertised salary
$162K – $240Kmiddle half of roles
$208Kaverage advertised salary
36roles counted
Skills that pay more for SOAR roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | $234K | +$31K | 6 |
| SOC 2 | $228K | +$26K | 6 |
| ISO 27001 | $228K | +$26K | 6 |
| Kubernetes | $228K | +$25K | 9 |
| MITRE ATT&CK | $210K | +$8K | 13 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|
Highest-paying open SOAR roles
All SOAR jobs- Senior Global Security InvestigatorOpenAI · 🇺🇸US - Remote$230K - $500KRemoteSeniorSecurity clearanceThreat intelligenceSIEM
- Security Engineer, Detection & ResponseAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Wash…$300K - $405KPythonSQLLLM
- Security EngineerLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$230K - $395KHybridGoPythonMachine Learning
- Security Engineer - Incident ResponseReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$230K - $360KHybridGoPythonGCP
- Partner Sales Manager – Cybersecurity Alliances & MSSPCensys · 🇺🇸United States$280K - $320KVulnerability managementThreat intelligenceSIEM
- Senior Manager, Security Operations CenterRubrik · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$213K - $319KSeniorCISSPCISMGIAC
- Senior Manager, Security Operations - Detection Engineering & Incident ResponsePure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$253K - $309KSeniorAzureCI/CDAWS
- Past FounderCogent Security · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$100K - $300KHybridDatabricksCloud securityVulnerability management
- Senior Security Engineer, AI SecurityDropbox · 🇺🇸Remote - US: Select locations$190K - $290KRemoteSeniorRustGoPython
- Security Engineer, Detection and ResponseNotion · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$185K - $280KHybridPythonSQLGCP
- Detection and Response EngineerModal · 🇺🇸New York$150K - $270KSQLLLMLinux
- Staff Security Engineer, Incident ResponseDatabricks · 🇺🇸United States$156K - $268KLead and aboveGCPAzureLLM
- Staff Security Engineer - SecOps & Threats6sense · 🇺🇸United States, Remote$231K - $266KRemoteLead and aboveAWSCISSPCISM
- Senior Security Operations EngineerCohere · 🇺🇸United States$195K - $260KSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Detection & Response EngineerTypeface · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$210K - $240KLead and abovePythonGCPAzure
- Manager Security Engineer, OperationsFivetran · 🇺🇸Remote, Massachusetts, United States, AMER$187K - $233KRemoteGCPAzureLLM
- Manager Security Engineer, OperationsFivetran · 🇺🇸Remote, New York, United States, AMER$187K - $233KRemoteGCPAzureLLM
- Senior Security EngineerGoDaddy · 🇺🇸United States$118K - $231KSeniorPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Senior Security Engineer, Detection & ResponseAngi · 🇺🇸Remote - United States$150K - $225KRemoteSeniorPythonTerraformLLM
- Senior Product Manager, Mobile Security & AISamsung Research America · 🇺🇸665 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA$164K - $225KSeniorAISIEMThreat modeling
Questions about SOAR pay
- What is the average SOAR salary?
- $208K a year on average and $202K at the median, across 36 open SOAR 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 $162K to $240K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer 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.
- Is a soar a high-paying job?
- The median SOAR posting advertises $202K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 16% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a soar?
- A tenth of the postings offer $300K a year or more; the highest open SOAR role advertises up to $500K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the SOAR salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $202K a year is about $97 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $16,875 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $78 to $115 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for SOAR roles?
- Postings that ask for Go (+$31K, 6 postings), SOC 2 (+$26K, 6 postings), ISO 27001 (+$26K, 6 postings) advertise more than the $202K median of all SOAR postings with pay.
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The median advertised salary for SOAR roles at companies is $202K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $162K to $240K. Counted from 36 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/soar/
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