SOC 2 salary: $208K median
The median advertised SOC 2 salary is $208K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $170K to $250K: counted from 570 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $100 an hour or $17,292 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $300K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll SOC 2 jobs
$208Kmedian advertised salary
$170K – $250Kmiddle half of roles
$214Kaverage advertised salary
570roles counted
SOC 2 salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $244K, 26% more than senior roles ($194K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $194K | $170K–$226K | 191 |
| Lead and above | $244K | $205K–$280K | 172 |
| No level in the title | $190K | $149K–$244K | 206 |
SOC 2 salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $220K | 190 |
| 🇺🇸California | $218K | 219 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $212K | 111 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $210K | 503 |
| 🇺🇸Seattle, WA | $205K | 33 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $168K | 18 |
| 🇺🇸Chicago, IL | $155K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸Boston, MA | $155K | 16 |
| 🇺🇸Texas | $150K | 15 |
Skills that pay more for SOC 2 roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zero trust | $236K | +$28K | 61 |
| LLM | $233K | +$25K | 122 |
| Threat modeling | $230K | +$22K | 71 |
| Go | $230K | +$22K | 112 |
| HIPAA | $220K | +$12K | 177 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Lambda | $330K | 8 |
| Anthropic | $308K | 18 |
| Decagon | $300K | 5 |
| Scale AI | $298K | 3 |
| Replit | $288K | 5 |
| ClickUp | $275K | 3 |
| Cloudflare | $262K | 14 |
| Ripple | $262K | 5 |
| Vercel | $260K | 6 |
| Snorkel AI | $260K | 5 |
| OpenAI | $252K | 4 |
| Figma | $251K | 3 |
| LiveKit | $250K | 3 |
| Perplexity | $245K | 5 |
| Vanta | $244K | 46 |
| RunPod | $240K | 3 |
| ConvertKit | $239K | 5 |
| Rubrik | $236K | 5 |
| Sandboxaq | $234K | 3 |
| Zania | $230K | 3 |
| Ramp | $223K | 4 |
| Abnormal Security | $218K | 3 |
| Synthesia | $216K | 4 |
| Databricks | $212K | 4 |
| CoreWeave | $212K | 7 |
Highest-paying open SOC 2 roles
All SOC 2 jobs- Head of DesignVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$365K - $513KRemoteLead and aboveSOC 2ISO 27001Design systems
- Lead - Security Controls Assurance - SOXAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY | Was…$410K - $510KLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Vice President, Platform OperationsNetskope · 🇺🇸United States$298K - $500KLead and aboveCDNNetwork engineeringData centers
- CISOGlean · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$424K - $489KLLMZendeskAI agents
- Engineering Manager, EnterpriseAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$405K - $485KIncident responseSOC 2HIPAA
- Senior Manager, Detection and ResponseLambda · Bellevue Office$324K - $480KHybridSeniorMachine LearningLLMIncident response
- Staff Security ArchitectLambda · Bellevue Office$314K - $465KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Client Platform EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KHybridGoPythonDocker
- VP, Success & ServicesVanta · 🇺🇸Remote U.S.$318K - $426KRemoteLead and aboveGCPAzureJira
- Security GRC LeadMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$350K - $425KLead and abovePythonSQLLLM
- Security Lead, Product and Infrastructure (InfoSec)River AI Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $420KLead and aboveDeep learningIncident responseIAM
- Engineering Manager (Enterprise)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $405KRecommender systemsData governanceIncident response
- Engineering Manager (Security)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $405KHybridLLMCI/CDKubernetes
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Software Engineer, Application SecurityDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorGCPCI/CDAI agents
- Chief Risk Officer - Managing DirectoriCapital · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States$350K - $400KLead and aboveCPACFAFRM
- VP, SecurityEngine · 🇺🇸Remote - US$298K - $400KRemoteLead and aboveLLMAWSApplication security
- Member of Technical Staff, Product SecurityInferact · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPyTorchCI/CDKubernetes
- Member of Technical Staff, Financial DataVercel · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City$264K - $396KHybridGCPAzureKafka
- General CounselFirecrawl · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$310K - $392KHybridGoLLMSOC 2
Questions about SOC 2 pay
- What is the average SOC 2 salary?
- $214K a year on average and $208K at the median, across 570 open SOC 2 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 $170K to $250K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest SOC 2 pay?
- Lambda ($330K), Anthropic ($308K), Decagon ($300K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a soc 2 a high-paying job?
- The median SOC 2 posting advertises $208K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 19% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a soc 2?
- A tenth of the postings offer $300K a year or more; the highest open SOC 2 role advertises up to $513K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the SOC 2 salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $208K a year is about $100 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $17,292 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $82 to $120 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for SOC 2 roles?
- Postings that ask for Zero trust (+$28K, 61 postings), LLM (+$25K, 122 postings), Threat modeling (+$22K, 71 postings) advertise more than the $208K median of all SOC 2 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 SOC 2 roles at companies is $208K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $170K to $250K. Counted from 570 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/soc-2/
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