Technical writing salary: $167K median
The median advertised Technical writing salary is $167K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $135K to $215K: counted from 312 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $80 an hour or $13,938 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $245K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll Technical writing jobs
$167Kmedian advertised salary
$135K – $215Kmiddle half of roles
$174Kaverage advertised salary
312roles counted
Technical writing salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $222K, 29% more than senior roles ($172K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $172K | $145K–$205K | 76 |
| Lead and above | $222K | $180K–$241K | 59 |
| No level in the title | $146K | $120K–$195K | 170 |
Technical writing salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $215K | 78 |
| 🇺🇸New York, NY | $180K | 27 |
| 🇺🇸California | $176K | 163 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $168K | 288 |
| 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA | $140K | 17 |
Skills that pay more for Technical writing roles
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $362K | 4 |
| Turing | $300K | 3 |
| Sierra | $245K | 13 |
| OpenAI | $231K | 3 |
| Muon Space | $225K | 6 |
| True Anomaly | $224K | 4 |
| Cohere | $212K | 3 |
| GitLab | $196K | 4 |
| Tailscale | $194K | 6 |
| Cloudflare | $186K | 3 |
| Applied | $180K | 3 |
| Lucid Motors | $171K | 11 |
| CoreWeave | $166K | 4 |
| Anduril Industries | $165K | 51 |
| Valar Atomics | $160K | 3 |
| Epirus | $140K | 3 |
| Rocket Lab | $138K | 11 |
| Crusoe | $118K | 3 |
| SpaceX | $118K | 5 |
| Apex Companies | $115K | 16 |
| Shield AI | $114K | 3 |
| Harvey | $110K | 3 |
| LG Electronics | $110K | 5 |
| General Matter | $98K | 3 |
| Qualtrics | $75K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Technical writing roles
All Technical writing jobs- Principal Offensive Cyber Research EngineerTwenty · 🇺🇸Arlington, VA$192K - $455KLead and aboveRustPythonC++
- Developer RelationsAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$290K - $435KLLMGenerative AITechnical writing
- Developer Relations Manager, Claude PlatformAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$290K - $435KTechnical writingEvent marketing
- Senior Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- Staff Research ScientistTuring · 🇺🇸United States$250K - $400KLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Global Field CTOCodeRabbit · 🇺🇸San Francisco$325K - $380KHybridCI/CDApplication securityTechnical writing
- Principal AI ArchitectRubrik · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$254K - $356KLead and abovePythonJavaGCP
- Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Inference Platform - USAInworld AI · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, USA$280K - $350KHybridLead and aboveRustGoJava
- Strategist Lead, Agent DevelopmentSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$200K - $350KLead and aboveLLMRAGPrompt engineering
- Senior Research Scientist, STEMTuring · 🇺🇸United States$250K - $350KSeniorPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Distinguished Engineer, Core DevOpsGitLab · 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United St…$250K - $349KRemoteLLMCI/CDAI agents
- Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, Intelligent SystemsScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$265K - $331KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI agents
- Product Manager, LegalPerplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $330KSQLLLMAgile
- Product Platform - Backend EngineerBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridRustGoPython
- Product Manager, Inference PlatformCohere · 🇨🇦Toronto$205K - $320KRemoteGCPAzureAWS
- Staff Software Engineer, ElixirTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA$205K - $315KLead and aboveElixirPostgreSQLGraphQL
- Staff Software Engineer, Full StackTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA$205K - $315KLead and aboveTypeScriptJavaScriptReact
- Senior Manager, Endpoint ProtectionsElastic · 🇺🇸United States$160K - $304KSeniorMachine LearningLinuxElasticsearch
- Director, Product Manager - Institutional PlatformGalaxy · 🇺🇸New York, NY$275K - $300KLead and aboveData centersTechnical writingReconciliations
- Senior Staff Technical Product Marketing Engineer, PrimitivesTemporal · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington$182K - $300KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonTypeScript
Questions about Technical writing pay
- What is the average Technical writing salary?
- $174K a year on average and $167K at the median, across 312 open Technical writing 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 $135K to $215K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Technical writing pay?
- Anthropic ($362K), Turing ($300K), Sierra ($245K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is a technical writing a high-paying job?
- The median Technical writing posting advertises $167K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 4% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as a technical writing?
- A tenth of the postings offer $245K a year or more; the highest open Technical writing role advertises up to $455K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the Technical writing salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $167K a year is about $80 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $13,938 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $65 to $103 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for Technical writing roles?
- Postings that ask for LLM (+$73K, 43 postings), AI agents (+$63K, 35 postings), Python (+$26K, 57 postings) advertise more than the $167K median of all Technical writing postings with pay.
- What does an entry-level technical writing make?
- 7 junior and intern Technical writing postings state pay, with a median of $83K a year ($40 an hour).
- 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 Technical writing roles at companies is $167K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $135K to $215K. Counted from 312 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/technical-writing/
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