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SQS salary: $185K median

The median advertised SQS salary is $185K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $160K to $220K: counted from 96 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $89 an hour or $15,396 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $252K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.

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$185Kmedian advertised salary
$160K – $220Kmiddle half of roles
$190Kaverage advertised salary
96roles counted

SQS salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $222K, 30% more than senior roles ($170K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

LevelMedian salaryMiddle halfRoles
Senior$170K$162K–$192K45
Lead and above$222K$192K–$238K20
No level in the title$156K$138K–$224K31

SQS salary by location

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$196K26
🇺🇸California$192K29
🇺🇸New York, NY$183K18
🇺🇸United States$182K91

Skills that pay more for SQS roles

SkillMedian with itAbove the medianPostings
Redis$228K+$43K11
Data modeling$212K+$28K14
API gateways$207K+$22K10
Pub/Sub$196K+$11K12
AI agents$196K+$11K17

Top-paying companies

NameMedian salaryRoles counted
Okta$230K3
Omada Health$228K4
Very Good Security$192K5
Fanatics Betting & Gaming$175K4
Meridianlink$170K3
Penn Interactive$169K5
PathAI$162K6
Twitch$148K6

Highest-paying open SQS roles

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Questions about SQS pay

What is the average SQS salary?
$190K a year on average and $185K at the median, across 96 open SQS 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 $160K to $220K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest SQS pay?
Okta ($230K), Omada Health ($228K), Very Good Security ($192K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a sqs a high-paying job?
The median SQS posting advertises $185K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 6% above the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a sqs?
A tenth of the postings offer $252K a year or more; the highest open SQS role advertises up to $455K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the SQS salary per hour and per month?
The median of $185K a year is about $89 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,396 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $77 to $106 an hour.
Which skills pay more for SQS roles?
Postings that ask for Redis (+$43K, 11 postings), Data modeling (+$28K, 14 postings), API gateways (+$22K, 10 postings) advertise more than the $185K median of all SQS 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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