Technical recruiting salary: $171K median

Lead roles advertise a median of $213K, 29% more than senior roles ($165K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

• DSenior Director of Engineering, New SubjectsDuolingo · 🇺🇸New York, NY$296K - $444KLead and aboveLLMWorkforce planningTechnical recruiting5mo
• PExperienced Engineering Manager, PaymentsPlaid · 🇺🇸New York City Office$264K - $400KHybridRailsACHTechnical recruiting10d
• DDirector of Engineering - Databricks Commercialization & MarketplaceDatabricks · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington$249K - $350KLead and aboveGoGCPAzure10d
• GDistinguished Engineer, Core DevOpsGitLab · 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United St…$250K - $349KRemoteLLMCI/CDAI agents7w
• CSenior Director, TalentCheckr · 🇺🇸Denver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, Californi…$247K - $343KLead and aboveTechnical recruiting7w
• P🦾 Head of EngineeringPartiful · 🇺🇸New York, NY$250K - $300KLead and aboveHTMLPerformance managementWorkforce planning12d
• PHead of EngineeringPartiful · 🇺🇸New York, NY$250K - $300KHybridLead and aboveHTMLPerformance managementWorkforce planning3mo
• SDirector of Technical RecruitingSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)$170K - $300KHybridLead and aboveMachine LearningLLM evaluationWorkforce planning3mo
• FManager, Recruiting - EngineeringFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$169K - $296KPerformance managementWorkforce planningTechnical recruiting3d
• ATechnical RecruiterAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$240K - $295KRemoteMachine LearningLLMIncident response4mo
• OSenior Technical RecruiterOpenAI · 🇺🇸US - Remote$172K - $295KRemoteSeniorTechnical recruiting7w
• APrincipal Test & Evaluation Engineer - Networked Battlefield SystemsAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$220K - $292KLead and aboveCI/CDComputer VisionSecurity clearance2mo
• BSoftware Engineer, Tools and AutomationBenchling · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$195K - $265KHybridGoPythonTypeScript2mo
• BSr. Manager, Technical Recruiting (Product & Design)Brex · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States$236K - $262KSeniorDesign systemsWorkforce planningTechnical recruiting5d
• BSr. Manager, Technical Recruiting (Product & Design)Brex · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States$236K - $262KSeniorDesign systemsWorkforce planningTechnical recruiting5d
• CDirector, Recruiting, Digital InfrastructureCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$215K - $255KLead and aboveTechnical recruiting7w
• CSenior Technical RecruiterCodeRabbit · 🇺🇸San Francisco$175K - $250KHybridSeniorProduct marketingFull-cycle recruitingLinkedIn Recruiter6mo
• MTechnical RecruiterMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $250KMachine LearningFull-cycle recruitingTechnical recruiting3mo
• MTechnical RecruiterMercor · 🇺🇸New York City$160K - $250KMachine LearningFull-cycle recruitingTechnical recruiting2w
• PPrincipal Software Engineer, Collaborative Web PlatformPantheon · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$199K - $249KRemoteLead and aboveTypeScriptReactNode.js2mo

What is the average Technical recruiting salary?

$174K a year on average and $171K at the median, across 132 open Technical recruiting 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 $140K to $200K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.

Which companies advertise the highest Technical recruiting pay?

Brex ($224K), Mercor ($188K), Crusoe ($181K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).

Is a technical recruiting a high-paying job?

The median Technical recruiting posting advertises $171K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 2% below the middle of the market.

How much can you earn as a technical recruiting?

A tenth of the postings offer $235K a year or more; the highest open Technical recruiting role advertises up to $444K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.

What is the Technical recruiting salary per hour and per month?

The median of $171K a year is about $82 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $14,229 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $67 to $96 an hour.

Which skills pay more for Technical recruiting roles?

Postings that ask for Workforce planning (+$29K, 24 postings), LLM (+$14K, 13 postings) advertise more than the $171K median of all Technical recruiting 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.